The First QALB Shared Task on Automatic Text Correction for Arabic

Behrang Mohit, Alla Rozovskaya, Nizar Habash, Wajdi Zaghouani, Ossama Obeid

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Abstract

We present a summary of the first shared task on automatic text correction for Arabic text. The shared task received 18 systems submissions from nine teams in six countries and represented a diversity of approaches. Our report includes an overview of the QALB corpus which was the source of the datasets used for training and evaluation, an overview of participating systems, results of the competition and an analysis of the results and systems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationANLP 2014 - EMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, Proceedings
EditorsNizar Habash, Stephan Vogel
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages39-47
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781937284961
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
EventEMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, ANLP 2014 - Doha, Qatar
Duration: 25 Oct 2014 → …

Publication series

NameANLP 2014 - EMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, Proceedings

Conference

ConferenceEMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, ANLP 2014
Country/TerritoryQatar
CityDoha
Period25/10/14 → …

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