Tunisian Dialect-Modern Standard Arabic Bilingual Lexicon
Mohamed Ali Sghaier, Mounir Zrigui · 2017
The present paper aims to present a Tunisian Dialect (TD) to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) bilingual lexicon. This type of resource is valuable and essential for language processing and more particularly for machine translation systems builders. To do this, we firstly collected data from different sources such as social networks (Facebook and Youtube), blogs, forums and other dialectal content sources available on the web. Secondly, we performed a grammatical categorization to the extracted words from this data. Thirdly, we organized them according to an ISO international standard i.e. Lexical Markup Framework (LMF) for Natural Language Processing (NLP) lexicons. Finally, we verified their translation with multiple Arabic dictionaries. Our proposed TD to MSA lexicon provides almost 14K of clean and manually approved words.