@InProceedings{elgabou-kazakov:2017:HiT-IT,
  author    = {Elgabou, Hani  and  Kazakov, Dimitar},
  title     = {Building Dialectal Arabic Corpora},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology},
  month     = {September},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Varna, Bulgaria},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics, Shoumen, Bulgaria},
  pages     = {52--57},
  abstract  = {The aim of this research is to identify local Arabic dialects in texts from
	social media (Twitter) and link them to specific geographic areas. Dialect
	identification is studied as a subset of the task of language identification.
	The proposed method is based on unsupervised learning using simultaneously
	lexical and geographic distance. While this study focusses on Libyan dialects,
	the approach is general, and could produce resources to support human
	translators and interpreters when dealing with vernaculars rather than standard
	Arabic.},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-042-7_007}
}