Building bilingual lexicon to create Dialect Tunisian corpora and adapt language model
Rahma Boujelbane, Mariem Ellouze, Siwar BenAyed, Lamia Hadrich Belguith · 2013
Since the Tunisian revolution, Tunisian Dialect (TD) used in daily life, has became progressively used and represented in interviews, news and debate programs instead of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). This situation has important negative consequences for natural language processing (NLP): since the spoken dialects are not officially written and do not have standard orthography, it is very costly to obtain adequate corpora to use for training NLP tools. Furthermore, there are almost no parallel corpora involving TD and MSA. In this paper, we describe the creation of Tunisian dialect text corpus as well as a method for building a bilingual dictionary, in order to create language model for speech recognition system for the Tunisian Broadcast News. So, we use explicit knowledge about the relation between TD and MSA. 1