Abdessamad Echihabi


2014

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An Arabizi-English social media statistical machine translation system
Jonathan May | Yassine Benjira | Abdessamad Echihabi
Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers Track

We present a machine translation engine that can translate romanized Arabic, often known as Arabizi, into English. With such a system we can, for the first time, translate the massive amounts of Arabizi that are generated every day in the social media sphere but until now have been uninterpretable by automated means. We accomplish our task by leveraging a machine translation system trained on non-Arabizi social media data and a weighted finite-state transducer-based Arabizi-to-Arabic conversion module, equipped with an Arabic character-based n-gram language model. The resulting system allows high capacity on-the-fly translation from Arabizi to English. We demonstrate via several experiments that our performance is quite close to the theoretical maximum attained by perfect deromanization of Arabizi input. This constitutes the first presentation of a high capacity end-to-end social media Arabizi-to-English translation system.

2010

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TrustRank: Inducing Trust in Automatic Translations via Ranking
Radu Soricut | Abdessamad Echihabi
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

2006

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SPMT: Statistical Machine Translation with Syntactified Target Language Phrases
Daniel Marcu | Wei Wang | Abdessamad Echihabi | Kevin Knight
Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2003

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Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked
Michael Fleischman | Eduard Hovy | Abdessamad Echihabi
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering
Abdessamad Echihabi | Daniel Marcu
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

2002

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An Unsupervised Approach to Recognizing Discourse Relations
Daniel Marcu | Abdessamad Echihabi
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics