Multi Dialect Arabic

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We are developing a new set of methods for integrated semantic-parse-based automatic speech recognition and machine translation between Qatari broadcast TV (including Modern Standard Arabic, Qatari Arabic as spoken on Qatari TV, and dialects from across the Arab world as heard on Qatari satellite television talk shows) and English.


Meetings at Illinois, Fall 2010

Regular research meetings have been scheduled in 2169 Beckman, in Urbana, 3:30-4:30 PM, Tuesdays in fall semester 2010. These will be superseded international meetings if the international meeting schedule can be established.

Tuesday August 24, 2010, 2169 Beckman
Introductions and overview of proposed research
Tuesday August 31, 2010, 2169 Beckman
Basics of Speech Recognition
Coordinator: MH
Reading: Rabiner, Proceedings of the IEEE, 1989
Tuesday September 14, 2010, 2169 Beckman
Basics of Arabic Morphophonology
Coordinator: EB
An Optimality Theoretic Approach to Variable Consonant Alternations in Qatari Arabic, Eiman Mustafawi
Morphology, McCarthy
Tuesday October 5, 2010, 2169 Beckman
Basics of Machine Translation
Coordinator: RG
Tuesday October 19, 2010, 2169 Beckman
Research background and/or current results
Rania Al-Sabbagh
Tuesday November 2, 2010, 2169 Beckman
Research background and/or current results
Sujeeth Bharadwaj
Tuesday November 16, 2010, 2169 Beckman
Research background and/or current results
Chen Li
Tuesday November 30, 2010, 2169 Beckman
Wrap-up and prospectus
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