The MADAR corpus is a collection of parallel sentences covering the dialects of 25 cities from the Arab World, in addition to English, French, and MSA. The corpus is created by translating selected sentences from the Basic Traveling Expression Corpus (BTEC) (Takezawa et al., 2007) to the different dialects. The exact details on the translation process and source and target languages are described in Bouamor et al. (2018).
The list of Arab cities covered in the MADAR corpus includes: Aleppo, Alexandria, Algiers, Amman, Aswan, Baghdad, Basra, Beirut, Benghazi, Cairo, Damascus, Doha, Fes, Jeddah, Jerusalem, Khartoum, Mosul, Muscat, Rabat, Riyadh, Salt, Sanaa, Sfax, Tripoli, and Tunis.
This release contains two datasets:
Note: We do not provide the English or the French versions of the corpus because of copyright restrictions. In order to get access to the English and French corpus, you will have to contact the U-Star Consortium (u-star-sec@ustarconsortium.com).
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Created by Houda Bouamor, Nizar Habash, Mohammad Salameh, Wajdi
Zaghouani, Owen Rambow, Dana Abdulrahim, Ossama Obeid, Salam Khalifa,
Fadhl Eryani, Alexander Erdmann and Kemal Oflazer.
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Bouamor, Houda, Nizar Habash, Mohammad Salameh, Wajdi Zaghouani, Owen
Rambow, Dana Abdulrahim, Ossama Obeid, Salam Khalifa, Fadhl Eryani,
Alexander Erdmann and Kemal Oflazer. The MADAR Arabic Dialect Corpus
and Lexicon. In Proceedings of the International Conference on
Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan, 2018.
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