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.
Meeting Schedule, Fall 2010
- 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