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Arabic Dialect Identification in the Wild
, 2020 13 pages, 7 figures, 4 ...
Abdelali, Ahmed +4 more
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The Enhanced Literate Mind Hypothesis
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract In the present paper, we describe the Enhanced Literate Mind (ELM) hypothesis. As individuals learn to read and write, they are, from then on, exposed to extensive written‐language input and become literate. We propose that acquisition and proficient processing of written language (“literacy”) leads to, both, increased language knowledge as ...
Falk Huettig, Jan Hulstijn
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Speech Recognition Challenge in the Wild: Arabic MGB-3 [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 This paper describes the Arabic MGB-3 Challenge - Arabic Speech Recognition in the Wild. Unlike last year's Arabic MGB-2 Challenge, for which the recognition task was based on more than 1,200 hours broadcast TV news recordings from Aljazeera Arabic TV programs, MGB-3 emphasises dialectal Arabic using a multi-genre collection of Egyptian YouTube videos.
arxiv
National identity and the ownership of English in Nigeria
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract It has been argued that, especially in non‐Inner Circles of English, whether or not speakers consider language to be a harbinger of national identity affects their positioning as owners of that language. A plethora of prior studies have also demonstrated that language is of central importance regarding the ways in which people enact their ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Robert M. Mckenzie
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Progressive Aspect in Hijazi Arabic
الآداب للدراسات اللغوية والأدبيةThis paper aims to analyze and compare imperfective forms and implications in Hijazi Arabic, situated in the ongoing grammaticalization process of a progressive aspect marker across Arabic vernaculars. In Modern Standard Arabic, an eventive imperfective
Abdullah Ibrahim Alsubhi
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A Transformer-Based Neural Machine Translation Model for Arabic Dialects That Utilizes Subword Units. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2021 Baniata LH, Ampomah IKE, Park S.
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MIT-QCRI Arabic Dialect Identification System for the 2017 Multi-Genre Broadcast Challenge [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 In order to successfully annotate the Arabic speech con- tent found in open-domain media broadcasts, it is essential to be able to process a diverse set of Arabic dialects. For the 2017 Multi-Genre Broadcast challenge (MGB-3) there were two possible tasks: Arabic speech recognition, and Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI).
arxiv
Nation Building Through Translation: Kleist's “Earthquake” in Meiji Japan
The German Quarterly, Volume 98, Issue 1, Page 24-40, Winter 2025.Abstract In this essay, I consider Mori Ogai's translation of Heinrich von Kleist's “Das Erdbeben in Chili” as a contribution to the linguistic reform debates in Meiji Japan, which centered on the unification of the spoken and written language. I analyze the syntax of Ogai's translation and argue that his stylistic reduction of the original transforms ...
Jonas Teupert
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Multi-Dialect Arabic BERT for Country-Level Dialect Identification [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Arabic dialect identification is a complex problem for a number of inherent properties of the language itself. In this paper, we present the experiments conducted, and the models developed by our competing team, Mawdoo3 AI, along the way to achieving our winning solution to subtask 1 of the Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI) shared task.
arxiv
Arabic Short‐Text Dataset for Sentiment Analysis of Tourism and Leisure Events
Expert Systems, Volume 42, Issue 5, May 2025.ABSTRACT The focus of this study is to present the detailed process of collecting a dataset of Arabic short‐text in the tourism context and annotating this dataset for the task of sentiment analysis using an automatic zero‐shot labelling technique utilising transformer‐based models.
Seham Basabain +4 more
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