Dalila

The Arabic Dialect Guide

##Description Dalila is a Chrome extension that utilizes cutting edge natural language processing (NLP) research to help learners of Arabic and Arabic dialects by providing dialectal word analysis and definitions.

##Usage

1. Users can enable Dalila by downloading the Chrome extension.
2. A double click on any Arabic word on the webpage triggers Dalila to provide:

• Diacritized form.
• Part-of-speech and dictionary citation form.
• English definition.

##Extension Components ####Frontend:

• An Arabic word gets deteced as Arabic text once its double clicked by the user.
• The selected word is sent to the backend to get the analysis.
• The analysis is displayed in pop-up box.

####Backend:

• Receive the word from the frontend.
• The word will be segmeted into "Prefix+Stem+Suffix"
• Each part will be checked against a dictionary to find multiple possible valid forms.
• The form with the highest probability gets selected with its respective definition and part-of-speech.
  • Probabilities are obtained from Arabic natural language processing annotated corpora.
• The dictionaries and probability models are developed by researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi and Columbia University.
• Top analysis is sent to the front end.

NYUAD Hackathon Information

• Students:
  • Hiba Bejaoui, ESPRIT, Tunisia
  • Maeda Hanafi, NYU AD, UAE
  • Fatima Al Neyadi, UAE University, UAE
  • Sara Al Kendi, UAE University, UAE
• Presentation requirements:
  • 4 microphones, computer demonstration
• Link to Presentation slides

Publication

If you use DALILA, please make sure to cite the paper:

• Khalifa, Salam, Houda Bouamor and Nizar Habash. DALILA: The Dialectal Arabic Linguistic Learning Assistant. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Portorož, Slovenia, 2016. PDF