%0 Conference Proceedings %T YouDACC: the Youtube Dialectal Arabic Comment Corpus %A Salama, Ahmed %A Bouamor, Houda %A Mohit, Behrang %A Oflazer, Kemal %Y Calzolari, Nicoletta %Y Choukri, Khalid %Y Declerck, Thierry %Y Loftsson, Hrafn %Y Maegaard, Bente %Y Mariani, Joseph %Y Moreno, Asuncion %Y Odijk, Jan %Y Piperidis, Stelios %S Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’14) %D 2014 %8 May %I European Language Resources Association (ELRA) %C Reykjavik, Iceland %F salama-etal-2014-youdacc %X This paper presents YOUDACC, an automatically annotated large-scale multi-dialectal Arabic corpus collected from user comments on Youtube videos. Our corpus covers different groups of dialects: Egyptian (EG), Gulf (GU), Iraqi (IQ), Maghrebi (MG) and Levantine (LV). We perform an empirical analysis on the crawled corpus and demonstrate that our location-based proposed method is effective for the task of dialect labeling. %U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/558_Paper.pdf %P 1246-1251