The QALB Project

About

QALB (Qatar Arabic Language Bank) is a joint project between the NLP Group at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) and Nizar Habash and colleagues at Columbia University , New York University in Abu Dhabi, and University of Paris-Sud. The project aims to build a large corpus of manually corrected Arabic text for building automatic correction tools for Arabic text. Furthermore, the project includes research on statistical techniques for automatic correction of Arabic text.

Anouncements

New: An archived version of the Shared Task webpage is avaliable here.
Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Correction (in conjunction with EMNLP 2014).

Members

Nizar Habash

New York University Abu Dhabi
Kemal Oflazer

CMU-Q
Behrang Mohit

UC Berkeley
Wajdi Zaghouani

CMU-Q
Ossama W. Obeid

CMU-Q
Alla Rozovskaya

Columbia University
Houda Bouamor

CMU-Q

Previous Members

Nadi Tomeh

University of Paris-Sud
Noura Farra

Columbia University

Publications

The First shared Task on Automatic Text Correction for Arabic Behrang Mohit and Alla Rozovskaya and Nizar Habash and Wajdi Zaghouani and Ossama Obeid To appear in Proceedings of the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop co-located with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar

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@inproceedings{Mohit-etal-qalb2014,
    author = {Behrang Mohit and Alla Rozovskaya  and Nizar Habash  and Wajdi Zaghouani and Ossama Obeid},
    title = {{The First QALB Shared Task on Automatic Text Correction for Arabic}},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing},
    year = {2014},
    month = {October},
    address = {Doha, Qatar},
    language = {english}
}

Generalized Character-Level Spelling Error Correction Noura Farra, Nadi Tomeh, Alla Rozovskaya and Nizar Habash Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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@inproceedings{farra2014generalized,
  title={Generalized Character-Level Spelling Error Correction},
  author={Farra, Noura and Tomeh, Nadi and Rozovskaya, Alla and Habash, Nizar},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Baltimore, Maryland, USA},
  year={2014}
}

Large-scale Arabic Error Annotation: Guidelines and Framework. Wajdi, Behrang, Nizar, Ossama, Nadi, Alla Rozovskaya, Noura Farra, Sarah Al, and Kemal Oflazer Proceedings of LREC 2014, 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland.

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@inproceedings{ZAGHOUANI14.956.L14-1721,
    author = {Wajdi Zaghouani and Behrang Mohit and Nizar Habash and Ossama Obeid and Nadi Tomeh and Alla Rozovskaya and Noura Farra and Sarah Alkuhlani and Kemal Oflazer},
    url = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/956_Paper.pdf},
    note = {ACL Anthology Identifier: L14-1721},
    title = {Large Scale Arabic Error Annotation: Guidelines and Framework},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)},
    year = {2014},
    month = {May},
    date = {26-31},
    address = {Reykjavik, Iceland},
    editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Hrafn Loftsson and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis},
    publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
    isbn = {978-2-9517408-8-4},
    language = {english},
}

QALB: Qatar Arabic Language Bank Nizar Habash, Behrang Mohit, Ossama Obeid, Kemal Oflazer, Nadi Tomeh and Wajdi Zaghouani In Proceedings of Qatar Annual Research Conference (ARC-2013), Doha, Qatar

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@InProceedings{HABASH13.ARC,
  author = {Nizar Habash and Behrang Mohit and Ossama Obeid and Kemal Oflazer and Nadi Tomeh and Wajdi Zaghouani},
  title = {QALB: Qatar Arabic Language Bank},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of Qatar Annual Research Conference (ARC-2013)},
  year = {2013},
  address = {Doha, Qatar},
  language = {english}
 }

A Web-based Annotation Framework For Large-Scale Text Correction. Ossama Obeid, Wajdi Zaghouani, Behrang Mohit, Nizar Habash, Kemal Oflazer, and Nadi Tomeh. In Proceedings of IJCNLP-2013 – Demo Session, Nagoya, Japan, October 2013.

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@InProceedings{obeid-EtAl:2013:IJCNLP2013-Demos,
  author    = {Obeid, Ossama  and  Zaghouani, Wajdi  and  Mohit,
Behrang  and  Habash, Nizar  and  Oflazer, Kemal  and  Tomeh, Nadi},
  title     = {A Web-based Annotation Framework For Large-Scale Text
Correction},
  booktitle = {The Companion Volume of the Proceedings of IJCNLP 2013:
System Demonstrations},
  month     = {October},
  year      = {2013},
  address   = {Nagoya, Japan},
  publisher = {Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing},
  pages     = {1--4},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/I13-2001}
}

Resources and Tools

QALB Annotation Guidelines
QAWI annotation tool - Please contact Wajdi or Ossama if you would like to use the tool for your own work.

Acknowledgements

This project is supported by National Priority Research Program (NPRP grant 4-1058-168) of the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).