Diacritics restoration for Arabic dialect texts
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چکیده
Vocalization, diactritization or diacritics restoration is one of the major challenges in Arabic natural language processing. Algiers dialect is also concerned by this issue. In this paper, we present an automatic diacritization system for standard and dialect Arabic texts based on statistical approach. The idea is to use available tools in statistical machine translation to build such a system which basically does not require any linguistic knowledge. We began by working on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) texts for many reasons: Algiers dialect is an Arabic language which obeys to almost the same writing rules of MSA. Availability of diacritized texts in MSA allows to test our system on a large amount of data, which is not the case for Algiers dialect. Finally, we worked first on MSA texts because of the available results for many works in this field.
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