Curras: an annotated corpus for the Palestinian Arabic dialect
Curras: a dataset for Palestinian Arabic with rich metadata including POS tagging, lemma, stem, and other 
birzeit university
Curras: an annotated corpus for the Palestinian Arabic dialect
named entity recognition, stemming, lemmatization
Language Resource & Evaluation
Mustafa Jarrar, Nizar Habash, Faeq Alrimawi, Diyam Akra, Nasser Zalmout
In this article we present Curras, the first morphologically annotated
corpus of the Palestinian Arabic dialect. Palestinian Arabic is one of the many
primarily spoken dialects of the Arabic language. Arabic dialects are generally
under-resourced compared to Modern Standard Arabic, the primarily written and
official form of Arabic. We start in the article with a background description that
situates Palestinian Arabic linguistically and historically and compares it to Modern
Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic in terms of phonological, morphological,
orthographic, and lexical variations. We then describe the methodology we developed to collect Palestinian Arabic text to guarantee a variety of representative
domains and genres. We also discuss the annotation process we used, which
extended previous efforts for annotation guideline development, and utilized
existing automatic annotation solutions for Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.
The annotation guidelines and annotation meta-data are described in detail. The
Curras Palestinian Arabic corpus consists of more than 56 K tokens, which are annotated with rich morphological and lexical features. The inter-annotator agreement results indicate a high degree of consistency.