Tharwa: A large scale dialectal Arabic - Standard Arabic - English lexicon

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3782-3789

  Diab, Mona ^a   Al Badrashiny, Mohamed ^a   Aminian, Maryam ^a   Attia, Mohammed ^a   Dasigi, Pradeep ^a   Elfardy, Heba ^b   Eskander, Ramy ^b   Habash, Nizar ^b   Hawwari, Abdelati ^a   Salloum, Wael ^b  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic dialects; Arabic lexicon; Arabic morphology; Egyptian Arabic dictionary

Indexed keywords

ARABIC DIALECTS; ARABIC LEXICON; DIALECTAL ARABICS; EGYPTIANS; LEXICAL RESOURCES; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; MULTIPLE VARIANTS; PATTERN INFORMATION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85026887071     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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