@inproceedings{el-ghawi-2025-web,
    title = "Web-Based Corpus Compilation of the Emirati {A}rabic Dialect",
    author = "El-Ghawi, Yousra A.",
    editor = "Ezzini, Saad  and
      Alami, Hamza  and
      Berrada, Ismail  and
      Benlahbib, Abdessamad  and
      El Mahdaouy, Abdelkader  and
      Lamsiyah, Salima  and
      Derrouz, Hatim  and
      Haddad Haddad, Amal  and
      Jarrar, Mustafa  and
      El-Haj, Mo  and
      Mitkov, Ruslan  and
      Rayson, Paul",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4)",
    month = jan,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2025.wacl-1.7/",
    pages = "63--67",
    abstract = "This paper displays some initial efforts conducted in the compilation pursuits of Arabic dialectal corpora in the form of raw text, the end purpose of which is to fine-tune existing Arabic large language models (LLM) to better understand and generate text in the Emirati dialect as instructed. The focus of the paper is on the process of compiling corpora from the web, which includes the exploration of possible methods, tools and techniques specific to web search, as well as examples of genres and domains to explore. The results of these efforts and the importance of native speaker contributions to corpus compilation for low-resource languages are also touched upon."
}