Toward Temporally-aware MT: Can Information Extraction Help Preserve Temporal Interpretation?

no code implementations • AMTA 2016 • Taylor Cassidy, Jamal Laoudi, Clare Voss

Towards a Computational Lexicon for Moroccan Darija: Words, Idioms, and Constructions

no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Jamal Laoudi, Claire Bonial, Lucia Donatelli, Stephen Tratz, Clare Voss

In this paper, we explore the challenges of building a computational lexicon for Moroccan Darija (MD), an Arabic dialect spoken by over 32 million people worldwide but which only recently has begun appearing frequently in written form in social media.

Machine Translation

Finding Romanized Arabic Dialect in Code-Mixed Tweets

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Clare Voss, Stephen Tratz, Jamal Laoudi, Douglas Briesch

Recent computational work on Arabic dialect identification has focused primarily on building and annotating corpora written in Arabic script.

Dialect Identification

Resumptive Pronoun Detection for Modern Standard Arabic to English MT

no code implementations • WS 2014 • Stephen Tratz, Clare Voss, Jamal Laoudi

Machine Translation Word Alignment

Tweet Conversation Annotation Tool with a Focus on an Arabic Dialect, Moroccan Darija

no code implementations • WS 2013 • Stephen Tratz, Douglas Briesch, Jamal Laoudi, Clare Voss

Machine Translation

Assessing Divergence Measures for Automated Document Routing in an Adaptive MT System

no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Claire Jaja, Douglas Briesch, Jamal Laoudi, Clare Voss

This paper investigates the use of the Jensen-Shannon divergence measure for automatically routing new documents within a translation system with multiple MT engines to the appropriate custom MT engine in order to obtain the best translation.

Document Classification Machine Translation +1