YouDACC: the Youtube Dialectal Arabic Comment Corpus

Ahmed Salama, Houda Bouamor, Behrang Mohit, Kemal Oflazer


Abstract
This paper presents YOUDACC, an automatically annotated large-scale multi-dialectal Arabic corpus collected from user comments on Youtube videos. Our corpus covers different groups of dialects: Egyptian (EG), Gulf (GU), Iraqi (IQ), Maghrebi (MG) and Levantine (LV). We perform an empirical analysis on the crawled corpus and demonstrate that our location-based proposed method is effective for the task of dialect labeling.
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L14-1456
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
Year:
2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1246–1251
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/558_Paper.pdf
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Ahmed Salama, Houda Bouamor, Behrang Mohit, and Kemal Oflazer. 2014. YouDACC: the Youtube Dialectal Arabic Comment Corpus. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 1246–1251, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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YouDACC: the Youtube Dialectal Arabic Comment Corpus (Salama et al., LREC 2014)
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