@inproceedings{af8cc4c3476e4146aeefab4aa2a415bb,
title = "Processing Judeo-Arabic texts",
abstract = "Judeo-Arabic is a set of dialects spoken and written by Jewish communities living in Arab countries. Judeo-Arabic is typically written in Hebrew letters, enriched with diacritic marks that relate to the underlying Arabic. However, some inconsistencies in rendering words in Hebrew letters increase the level of ambiguity of a given word. Furthermore, Judeo-Arabic texts usually contain non-Arabic words and phrases, such as quotations or borrowed words from Hebrew and Aramaic. We focus on two main tasks: (1) automatic transliteration of Judeo-Arabic Hebrew letters into Arabic letters, and (2) automatic identification of language switching points between Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. For transliteration, we employ a statistical translation system trained on the character level, resulting in 96.9% precision, a significant improvement over the baseline. For the language switching task, we use a word-level supervised classifier, also showing some significant improvements over the baseline.",
keywords = "Code switching, Judeo-Arabic, Transliteration",
author = "Kfir Bar and Nachum Dershowitz and Lior Wolf and Yackov Lubarsky and Yaacov Choueka",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 1st International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics, ACLing 2015 ; Conference date: 17-04-2015 Through 20-04-2015",
year = "2016",
month = feb,
day = "29",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.1109/ACLing.2015.27",
language = "الإنجليزيّة",
series = "Proceedings - 1st International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics: Advances in Arabic Computational Linguistics, ACLing 2015",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "138--144",
editor = "Alexander Gelbukh and Khaled Shaalan",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 1st International Conference on Arabic Computational Linguistics",
address = "الولايات المتّحدة",
}