DIRA: Dialectal Arabic Information Retrieval Assistant
Arfath Pasha, Mohammad Al-Badrashiny, Mohamed Altantawy, Nizar Y. Habash, Manoj Pooleery, Owen Rambow, Ryan M. Roth, Mona Diab · International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing · 2013
DIRA is a query expansion tool that generates search terms in Standard Arabic and/or its dialects when provided with queries in English or Standard Arabic. The retrieval of dialectal Arabic text has recently become necessary due to the increase of dialectal content on social media. DIRA addresses the challenges of retrieving information in Arabic dialects, which have significant linguistic differences from Standard Arabic. To our knowledge, DIRA is the only tool in existence that automatically generates dialect search terms with relevant morphological variations from English or Standard Arabic query terms.