Ossama Obeid


2019

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ADIDA : Automatic Dialect Identification for ArabicADIDA: Automatic Dialect Identification for Arabic
Ossama Obeid | Mohammad Salameh | Houda Bouamor | Nizar Habash
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Demonstrations)

This demo paper describes ADIDA, a web-based system for automatic dialect identification for Arabic text. The system distinguishes among the dialects of 25 Arab cities (from Rabat to Muscat) in addition to Modern Standard Arabic. The results are presented with either a point map or a heat map visualizing the automatic identification probabilities over a geographical map of the Arab World.

2018

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An Arabic Morphological Analyzer and Generator with Copious FeaturesArabic Morphological Analyzer and Generator with Copious Features
Dima Taji | Salam Khalifa | Ossama Obeid | Fadhl Eryani | Nizar Habash
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

We introduce CALIMA-Star, a very rich Arabic morphological analyzer and generator that provides functional and form-based morphological features as well as built-in tokenization, phonological representation, lexical rationality and much more. This tool includes a fast engine that can be easily integrated into other systems, as well as an easy-to-use API and a web interface. CALIMA-Star also supports morphological reinflection. We evaluate CALIMA-Star against four commonly used analyzers for Arabic in terms of speed and morphological content.