Spoken arabic dialect identification using phonotactic modeling

Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, SEMITIC@EACL 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 53-61

  Biadsy, Fadi ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^a   Habash, Nizar ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARABIC DIALECTS; ARABIC LANGUAGES; DAILY LIVES; DIALECT IDENTIFICATION; EGYPTIANS; LEXICAL CHOICE; MODERN STANDARDS; MULTIPLE VARIANTS; PHONOTACTIC APPROACHES; STANDARD ARABICS;

EID: 85026860559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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