Semitic Language Resources

From SpeechWiki

A wiki list being compiled as part of our Multi Dialect Arabic project.

General Info about Language Interrelationships

• Wikipedia, of course
• World Atlas of Language Structures

Language Data

• LDC, of course
• Alrabiya.net Parallel Broadcast Text in MSA and Dialect
• Amharic NLP website

Software

• Sakhr
• Stanford Parser includes an Arabic model
• MADA+TOKAN
• Buckwalter

Tutorials

• Medar tutorial on Arabic NLP, Nizar Habash and Mona Diab
• WS02

References about Diglossia/Variation in Spoken Arabic

• Abdel-Jawad, H. R. 1981. Lexical and phonological variation in spoken Arabic in Amman. PhD dissertation University of Pennsylvania.
• Blanc. 1960. Stylistic variations in spoken Arabic, in Contribution to Arabic Linguistics (ed.) by Ferguson 1964. Cambridge, Mass. pp. 81-156.
• Schmit, R. W. 1975. Sociostylistic variation in spoken Egyptian Arabic: Examination of the concept of diaglossia. PhD dissertation, Brown Univ.
• Shorrab. 1981. Models of socially significant linguistic variation: The case of Palestinian Arabic. PhD dissertation, State Univ. of New York at Buffalo.