Reference

Al-Tamimi, J., Schiel, F., Khattab, G., Sokhey, N., Amazouz, D., Dallak, A., Moussa, H. (2022). A Romanization System and WebMAUS Aligner for Arabic Varieties. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (pp. 7269-7276).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{al-tamimiRomanizationSystemWebMAUS2022,
  title = {A {{Romanization System}} and {{WebMAUS Aligner}} for {{Arabic Varieties}}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {{Thirteenth Language Resources}} and {{Evaluation Conference}}},
  author = {{Al-Tamimi}, Jalal and Schiel, Florian and Khattab, Ghada and Sokhey, Navdeep and Amazouz, Djegdjiga and Dallak, Abdulrahman and Moussa, Hajar},
  year = {2022},
  pages = {7269--7276},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
  address = {Marseille, France},
  urldate = {2023-01-25},
  abstract = {This paper presents the results of an ongoing collaboration to develop an Arabic variety-independent romanization system that aims to homogenize and simplify the romanization of the Arabic script, and introduces an Arabic variety-independent WebMAUS service offering a free to use forced-alignment service fully integrated within the WebMAUS services. We present the rationale for developing such a system, highlighting the need for a detailed romanization system with graphemes corresponding to the phonemic short and long vowels/consonants in Arabic varieties. We describe how the acoustic model was created, followed by several hands-on recipes for applying the forced alignment webservice either online or programatically. Finally, we discuss some of the issues we faced during the development of the system.}
}