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Atar: Attention-based LSTM for Arabizi transliteration
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) · Vol. 11 No. 3 (2021)
- ISSN
- 2722-2578, 2088-8708
- Published
- 2021-06-01
- Publisher
- Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
Abstract
A non-standard romanization of Arabic script, known as Arbizi, is widely used in Arabic online and SMS/chat communities. However, since state-of-the-art tools and applications for Arabic NLP expects Arabic to be written in Arabic script, handling contents written in Arabizi requires a special attention either by building customized tools or by transliterating them into Arabic script. The latter approach is the more common one and this work presents two significant contributions in this direction. The first one is to collect and publicly release the first large-scale “Arabizi to Arabic script” parallel corpus focusing on the Jordanian dialect and consisting of more than 25 k pairs carefully created and inspected by native speakers to ensure highest quality. Second, we present Atar, an attention-based encoder-decoder model for Arabizi transliteration. Training and testing this model on our dataset yields impressive accuracy (79%) and BLEU score (88.49).
Collaboration network of the authors
17 authors · 47 co-authorship links · 6 across different organisations
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- Jordan University of Science and Technology
- University of Southampton
- Yarmouk University
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| Co-author | Organisation | Joint articles |
|---|---|---|
| Ghadeer Al-Bdour | Jordan University of Science and Technology | 1 |
| Raffi Al-Qurran | Jordan University of Science and Technology | 1 |
| Ali M. Shatnawi | Jordan University of Science and Technology | 1 |
| Asma’a Al-Mnayyis | Yarmouk University | 1 |
| Sanaa Abu Alasal | Jordan University of Science and Technology | 1 |
| Mohammad A. Alsmirat | Jordan University of Science and Technology | 1 |
| Qanita Bani Baker | Jordan University of Science and Technology | 1 |
| Amjad Nuseir | Jordan University of Science and Technology | 1 |
| Hasan Albalas | Affiliation unknown | 1 |
| Aya Nuseir | Jordan University of Science and Technology | 1 |
| Maulla Alali | Jordan University of Science and Technology | 1 |
| Firas Zoubi | Affiliation unknown | 1 |
| Mohammed Mahdi | Jordan University of Science and Technology | 1 |
| Ahmad Al Omari | Jordan University of Science and Technology | 1 |
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