Tunisian Arabic is a dialect of the Arabic language spoken in Tunisia. Tunisian Arabic is an
under-resourced language. It has neither a standard orthography nor large collections of …

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 …

Dialectal Arabic (DA) refers to the day-to-day vernaculars spoken in the Arab world. DA lives
side-by-side with the official language, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). DA differs from MSA …

We present a unified set of guidelines and resources for conventional orthography of
dialectal Arabic. While Standard Arabic has well defined orthographic standards, none of the …

This chapter introduces the transliteration scheme used to represent Arabic characters in
this book. The scheme is a one-to-one transliteration of the Arabic script that is complete …

Corpora are an important resource for both teaching and research. Arabic lacks sufficient
resources in this field, so a research project has been designed to compile a corpus, which …

We introduce an electronic three-way lexicon, Tharwa, comprising Dialectal Arabic, Modern
Standard Arabic and English correspondents. The paper focuses on Egyptian Arabic as the …

West Africans throughout the region have creatively adapted the Arabic script to write non-
Arabic languages, a form of literacy known as Ajami which remains widespread today …

Most Arabic natural language processing tools and resources are developed to serve
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), which is the official written language in the Arab World …

A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic is a comprehensive handbook on the
structure of Arabic. Keeping technical terminology to a minimum, it provides a detailed yet …