Conventional orthography for dialectal Arabic

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 711-718

  Habash, Nizar ^a   Diab, Mona ^a   Rambow, Owen ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Dialects; Orthography

Indexed keywords

ARABIC; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DIALECTAL ARABICS; DIALECTS; LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATIONS; OFFICIAL LANGUAGES; ORTHOGRAPHY;

EID: 84964544190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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