A Study of a Non-Resourced Language: The Case of one of the Algerian Dialects

Karima Meftouh (1, 2) , Najette Bouchemal (2) , Kamel Smaïli (1, 3)

1 SMarT - Statistical Machine Translation and Speech Modelization and Text
2 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche informatique - Badji Mokhtar University
3 PAROLE - Analysis, perception and recognition of speech

This paper presents a linguistic study of an algerian arabic dialect, namely the dialect of Annaba (AD). It also presents the methodology applied in the construction of a parallel corpus MSA-AD. This work is done in a future goal of developing a machine translation system of standard Arabic (MSA) to algerian arabic dialects.

Mots clés: Machine translation system; Standard Arabic; Algerian Arabic dialect; parallel corpus; dialect of Annaba; Machine translation system.

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Karima Meftouh, Najette Bouchemal, Kamel Smaïli. A Study of a Non-Resourced Language: The Case of one of the Algerian Dialects. The third International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced Languages - SLTU'12, May 2012, Cape-town, South Africa. pp.1-7. ⟨hal-00727042⟩