Class-based n-gram models of natural language
Computational Linguistics
UAI '00 Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
TnT: a statistical part-of-speech tagger
ANLC '00 Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing
A practical part-of-speech tagger
ANLC '92 Proceedings of the third conference on Applied natural language processing
Lexical triggers and latent semantic analysis for cross-lingual language model adaptation
ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
Inducing multilingual POS taggers and NP bracketers via robust projection across aligned corpora
NAACL '01 Proceedings of the second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Language technologies
Feature-rich part-of-speech tagging with a cyclic dependency network
NAACL '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology - Volume 1
NAACL-Short '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology: companion volume of the Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003--short papers - Volume 2
A morphologically sensitive clustering algorithm for identifying Arabic roots
ACL '00 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Chunking with maximum entropy models
ConLL '00 Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Learning language in logic and the 4th conference on Computational natural language learning - Volume 7
Shallow parsing as part-of-speech tagging
ConLL '00 Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Learning language in logic and the 4th conference on Computational natural language learning - Volume 7
Part of speech tagging in context
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
Automatic tagging of Arabic text: from raw text to base phrase chunks
HLT-NAACL-Short '04 Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short Papers
An unsupervised morpheme-based HMM for hebrew morphological disambiguation
ACL-44 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 44th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Methods for Amharic part-of-speech tagging
AfLaT '09 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages
Lexicon acquisition for dialectal Arabic using transductive learning
EMNLP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Dialectal to standard Arabic paraphrasing to improve Arabic-English statistical machine translation
DIALECTS '11 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Algorithms and Resources for Modelling of Dialects and Language Varieties
Transforming standard Arabic to colloquial Arabic
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Short Papers - Volume 2
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Natural language processing technology for the dialects of Arabic is still in its infancy, due to the problem of obtaining large amounts of text data for spoken Arabic. In this paper we describe the development of a part-of-speech (POS) tagger for Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. We adopt a minimally supervised approach that only requires raw text data from several varieties of Arabic and a morphological analyzer for Modern Standard Arabic. No dialect-specific tools are used. We present several statistical modeling and cross-dialectal data sharing techniques to enhance the performance of the baseline tagger and compare the results to those obtained by a supervised tagger trained on hand-annotated data and, by a state-of-the-art Modern Standard Arabic tagger applied to Egyptian Arabic.