Wiki TEA

Wiki TEA is a project at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar. The goal of the project is to create techniques, tools and resources for ehnancement and expansion of Arabic Wikipedia through Statistical Machine Translation.

Personnel and Collaborators

Mahmoud Azab
Houda Bouamor

Publications

SuMT: A Framework of Summarization and MT . Houda Bouamor, Behrang Mohit and Kemal Oflazer. In proceedings of The 6th Joint Conference of Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2013), Nagoya, Japan, Oct 2013. (Recieved the Best Paper Award.)

Dudley North visits North London: Learning When to Transliterate to Arabic. Mahmoud Azab, Houda Bouamor, Behrang Mohit and Kemal Oflazer. In proceedings of The 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL/HLT 2013), Atlanta, USA, June 2013.

Resources

English-Arabic Parallel Lexicon of Named Entities
A small English translated corpus of Arabic Wikipedia abstracts

Acknowledgements

This project is supported by the Young Scientist Research Program (YSREP grant 1-018-1-004) of the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) .