@InProceedings{taji-habash-zeman:2017:W17-13,
  author    = {Taji, Dima  and  Habash, Nizar  and  Zeman, Daniel},
  title     = {Universal Dependencies for Arabic},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop},
  month     = {April},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Valencia, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {166--176},
  abstract  = {We describe the process of creating NUDAR, a Universal Dependency treebank for
	Arabic. We present the conversion from the Penn Arabic Tree- bank to the
	Universal Dependency syntactic representation through an intermediate
	dependency representation. We discuss the challenges faced in the conversion of
	the trees, the decisions we made to solve them, and the validation of our
	conversion. We also present initial parsing results on NUDAR.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-1320}
}