A Conventional Orthography for Algerian Arabic

Houda Saadane (1) , Nizar Habash (2)

1 LIDILEM - LInguistique et DIdactique des Langues Étrangères et Maternelles
2 New York University [Abu Dhabi]

Algerian Arabic is an Arabic dialect spoken in Algeria characterized by the absence of writing resources and standardization, hence it is considered as an under-resourced language. It differs from Modern Standard Ara-bic on all levels of linguistic representation, from phonology and morphology to lexicon and syntax. In this paper, we present a conventional orthography for Algerian Arabic, following a previous effort on developing a conventional orthography for Dialectal Ara-bic (or CODA), demonstrated for Egyptian and Tunisian Arabic. We explain the design principles of Algerian CODA and provide a detailed description of its guidelines.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Réseaux sociaux et d'information [cs.SI]; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Houda Saadane, Nizar Habash. A Conventional Orthography for Algerian Arabic. the Second Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, 2015, Beijing, China. pp.69 - 79. ⟨hal-02012254⟩