@inproceedings{mokh-etal-2024-domain,
title = "Out-of-Domain Dependency Parsing for Dialects of {A}rabic: A Case Study",
author = {Mokh, Noor and
Dakota, Daniel and
K{\"u}bler, Sandra},
editor = "Habash, Nizar and
Bouamor, Houda and
Eskander, Ramy and
Tomeh, Nadi and
Abu Farha, Ibrahim and
Abdelali, Ahmed and
Touileb, Samia and
Hamed, Injy and
Onaizan, Yaser and
Alhafni, Bashar and
Antoun, Wissam and
Khalifa, Salam and
Haddad, Hatem and
Zitouni, Imed and
AlKhamissi, Badr and
Almatham, Rawan and
Mrini, Khalil",
booktitle = "Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference",
month = aug,
year = "2024",
address = "Bangkok, Thailand",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.16",
pages = "170--182",
abstract = "We study dependency parsing for four Arabic dialects (Gulf, Levantine, Egyptian, and Maghrebi). Since no syntactically annotated data exist for Arabic dialects, we train the parser on a Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) corpus, which creates an out-of-domain setting.We investigate methods to close the gap between the source (MSA) and target data (dialects), e.g., by training on syntactically similar sentences to the test data. For testing, we manually annotate a small data set from a dialectal corpus. We focus on parsing two linguistic phenomena, which are difficult to parse: Idafa and coordination. We find that we can improve results by adding in-domain MSA data while adding dialectal embeddings only results in minor improvements.",
}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<modsCollection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods ID="mokh-etal-2024-domain">
<titleInfo>
<title>Out-of-Domain Dependency Parsing for Dialects of Arabic: A Case Study</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Noor</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Mokh</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Daniel</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Dakota</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Sandra</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Kübler</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">author</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<dateIssued>2024-08</dateIssued>
</originInfo>
<typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
<relatedItem type="host">
<titleInfo>
<title>Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference</title>
</titleInfo>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Nizar</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Habash</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Houda</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Bouamor</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Ramy</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Eskander</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Nadi</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Tomeh</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Ibrahim</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Abu Farha</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Ahmed</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Abdelali</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Samia</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Touileb</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Injy</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Hamed</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Yaser</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Onaizan</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Bashar</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Alhafni</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Wissam</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Antoun</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Salam</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Khalifa</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Hatem</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Haddad</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Imed</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Zitouni</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Badr</namePart>
<namePart type="family">AlKhamissi</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Rawan</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Almatham</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<name type="personal">
<namePart type="given">Khalil</namePart>
<namePart type="family">Mrini</namePart>
<role>
<roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">editor</roleTerm>
</role>
</name>
<originInfo>
<publisher>Association for Computational Linguistics</publisher>
<place>
<placeTerm type="text">Bangkok, Thailand</placeTerm>
</place>
</originInfo>
<genre authority="marcgt">conference publication</genre>
</relatedItem>
<abstract>We study dependency parsing for four Arabic dialects (Gulf, Levantine, Egyptian, and Maghrebi). Since no syntactically annotated data exist for Arabic dialects, we train the parser on a Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) corpus, which creates an out-of-domain setting.We investigate methods to close the gap between the source (MSA) and target data (dialects), e.g., by training on syntactically similar sentences to the test data. For testing, we manually annotate a small data set from a dialectal corpus. We focus on parsing two linguistic phenomena, which are difficult to parse: Idafa and coordination. We find that we can improve results by adding in-domain MSA data while adding dialectal embeddings only results in minor improvements.</abstract>
<identifier type="citekey">mokh-etal-2024-domain</identifier>
<location>
<url>https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.16</url>
</location>
<part>
<date>2024-08</date>
<extent unit="page">
<start>170</start>
<end>182</end>
</extent>
</part>
</mods>
</modsCollection>
%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Out-of-Domain Dependency Parsing for Dialects of Arabic: A Case Study
%A Mokh, Noor
%A Dakota, Daniel
%A Kübler, Sandra
%Y Habash, Nizar
%Y Bouamor, Houda
%Y Eskander, Ramy
%Y Tomeh, Nadi
%Y Abu Farha, Ibrahim
%Y Abdelali, Ahmed
%Y Touileb, Samia
%Y Hamed, Injy
%Y Onaizan, Yaser
%Y Alhafni, Bashar
%Y Antoun, Wissam
%Y Khalifa, Salam
%Y Haddad, Hatem
%Y Zitouni, Imed
%Y AlKhamissi, Badr
%Y Almatham, Rawan
%Y Mrini, Khalil
%S Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
%D 2024
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Bangkok, Thailand
%F mokh-etal-2024-domain
%X We study dependency parsing for four Arabic dialects (Gulf, Levantine, Egyptian, and Maghrebi). Since no syntactically annotated data exist for Arabic dialects, we train the parser on a Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) corpus, which creates an out-of-domain setting.We investigate methods to close the gap between the source (MSA) and target data (dialects), e.g., by training on syntactically similar sentences to the test data. For testing, we manually annotate a small data set from a dialectal corpus. We focus on parsing two linguistic phenomena, which are difficult to parse: Idafa and coordination. We find that we can improve results by adding in-domain MSA data while adding dialectal embeddings only results in minor improvements.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.16
%P 170-182
Markdown (Informal)
[Out-of-Domain Dependency Parsing for Dialects of Arabic: A Case Study](https://aclanthology.org/2024.arabicnlp-1.16) (Mokh et al., ArabicNLP-WS 2024)
ACL