Exploiting Dialect Identification in Automatic Dialectal Text Normalization
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| author | Alhafni, Bashar Al-Towaity, Sarah Fawzy, Ziyad Nassar, Fatema Eryani, Fadhl Bouamor, Houda Habash, Nizar |
| author_facet | Alhafni, Bashar Al-Towaity, Sarah Fawzy, Ziyad Nassar, Fatema Eryani, Fadhl Bouamor, Houda Habash, Nizar |
| contents | Dialectal Arabic is the primary spoken language used by native Arabic speakers in daily communication. The rise of social media platforms has notably expanded its use as a written language. However, Arabic dialects do not have standard orthographies. This, combined with the inherent noise in user-generated content on social media, presents a major challenge to NLP applications dealing with Dialectal Arabic. In this paper, we explore and report on the task of CODAfication, which aims to normalize Dialectal Arabic into the Conventional Orthography for Dialectal Arabic (CODA). We work with a unique parallel corpus of multiple Arabic dialects focusing on five major city dialects. We benchmark newly developed pretrained sequence-to-sequence models on the task of CODAfication. We further show that using dialect identification information improves the performance across all dialects. We make our code, data, and pretrained models publicly available. |
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| spellingShingle | Exploiting Dialect Identification in Automatic Dialectal Text Normalization Alhafni, Bashar Al-Towaity, Sarah Fawzy, Ziyad Nassar, Fatema Eryani, Fadhl Bouamor, Houda Habash, Nizar Computation and Language Dialectal Arabic is the primary spoken language used by native Arabic speakers in daily communication. The rise of social media platforms has notably expanded its use as a written language. However, Arabic dialects do not have standard orthographies. This, combined with the inherent noise in user-generated content on social media, presents a major challenge to NLP applications dealing with Dialectal Arabic. In this paper, we explore and report on the task of CODAfication, which aims to normalize Dialectal Arabic into the Conventional Orthography for Dialectal Arabic (CODA). We work with a unique parallel corpus of multiple Arabic dialects focusing on five major city dialects. We benchmark newly developed pretrained sequence-to-sequence models on the task of CODAfication. We further show that using dialect identification information improves the performance across all dialects. We make our code, data, and pretrained models publicly available. |
| title | Exploiting Dialect Identification in Automatic Dialectal Text Normalization |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03020 |