MT and Arabic Language Issues

Nizar Habash


Abstract
Arabic poses many interesting challenges to machine translation: ambiguous orthography, rich morphology, complex morpho-syntactic behavior, and numerous dialects. In this tutorial, we introduce the most important themes of challenges and solutions for people working on translation from/to Arabic or any of its dialects. The tutorial is intended for researchers and developers working on MT. The discussion of linguistic issues and how they are addressed in MT will help linguists and professional translators understand the issues machine translation faces when dealing with Arabic and other morphologically rich languages. The tutorial does not expect the attendees to be able to speak/read/write Arabic.
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2012.amta-tutorials.3
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Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Tutorials
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October 28-November 1
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2012
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San Diego, California, USA
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AMTA
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Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
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https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-tutorials.3
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Nizar Habash. 2012. MT and Arabic Language Issues. In Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Tutorials, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.
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