A hybrid approach to translate Moroccan Arabic dialect

Author

Tachicart, Ridouane ; Bouzoubaa, Karim

Author_Institution

Mohammadia Sch. of Eng., Mohamed Vth Agdal Univ., Rabat, Morocco

fYear

2014

fDate

7-8 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Today, several tools exist for automatic processing of standard Arabic. In comparison, resources and tools for Arabic dialects especially Moroccan dialect are still lacking. Given the proximity of the Moroccan dialect with standard Arabic, a way is to provide a translation of the first to the second by combining a rule-based approach and a statistical approach, using tools designed for Arabic standard and adapting these tools to Moroccan dialect. We describe in this paper an architecture for such a translation.

Keywords

knowledge based systems; language translation; natural language processing; statistical analysis; Arabic standard; Moroccan Arabic dialect translation; automatic standard Arabic processing; hybrid approach; rule-based approach; statistical approach; Analytical models; Dictionaries; Educational institutions; Generators; Standards; Vocabulary; Automatic translation; Moroccan dialect; Standard Arabic; bilingual dictionary; language model; translation model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems: Theories and Applications (SITA-14), 2014 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rabat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3566-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SITA.2014.6847293

Filename

6847293