@inproceedings{c7bb4952176046eaad50f7cd7e4d2faf,
title = "AraP-Tweet: A large multi-dialect twitter corpus for gender, age and language variety identification",
abstract = "In this paper, we present Arap-Tweet, which is a large-scale and multi-dialectal corpus of Tweets from 11 regions and 16 countries in the Arab world representing the major Arabic dialectal varieties. To build this corpus, we collected data from Twitter and we provided a team of experienced annotators with annotation guidelines that they used to annotate the corpus for age categories, gender, and dialectal variety. During the data collection effort, we based our search on distinctive keywords that are specific to the different Arabic dialects and we also validated the location using Twitter API. In this paper, we report on the corpus data collection and annotation efforts. We also present some issues that we encountered during these phases. Then, we present the results of the evaluation performed to ensure the consistency of the annotation. The provided corpus will enrich the limited set of available language resources for Arabic and will be an invaluable enabler for developing author profiling tools and NLP tools for Arabic.",
keywords = "Author Profiling, Multi-dialectal corpus, Social media",
author = "Wajdi Zaghouani and Anis Charfi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. All rights reserved.; 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018 ; Conference date: 07-05-2018 Through 12-05-2018",
year = "2019",
language = "English",
series = "LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
pages = "694--700",
editor = "Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Stelios Piperidis and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Koiti Hasida and Helene Mazo and Khalid Choukri and Sara Goggi and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Nicoletta Calzolari and Jan Odijk and Takenobu Tokunaga",
booktitle = "LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation",
}