Ahmed Abdelalí

Arabic Dialect Identification in the Wild

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We present QADI, an automatically collected dataset of tweets belonging to a wide range of country-level Arabic dialects -covering 18 different countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. Our method for building this …

Farasa: A Fast and Furious Segmenter for Arabic

2016

In this paper, we present Farasa, a fast and accurate Arabic segmenter. Our approach is based on SVM-rank using linear kernels. We measure the performance of the segmenter in terms of accuracy and efficiency, in …