Arabic-L:LING:LDC-Georgetown collaboration

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Date: 18 Jul 2008
From:reposted from LDC list
Subject:LDC-Georgetown collaboration
LDC is pleased to announce that the U.S. Department of Education,  
International Education Programs Service, has funded a collaboration  
between LDC and Georgetown University Press (GUP) to create up-to-date  
lexical databases, with translations to and from English, for three  
dialects of colloquial Arabic. The databases will be used for  
interactive computer access and for new print publications of  
dictionaries in Iraqi, Syrian/Levantine and Moroccan dialects.

The databases will be based on three GUP source dictionaries: A  
Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic, English-Arabic, Arabic-English (Clarity,  
et al., 2003), A Dictionary of Syrian Arabic, English-Arabic  
(Stowasser and Ani, 2004) and a Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic, Arabic- 
English, English-Arabic (Harrell and Sobelman, 2004). Utilizing  
contemporary principles of computational linguistics and current  
pedagogical requirements in order to reflect current vocabulary and  
usage, the work will provide a standardized system of transcription  
and use the Arabic script, both vocalized and unvocalized, to show  
vowel pronunciation as well as standard orthography. A searchable  
version on CD-ROM will accompany each print reference. The project has  
been funded for three years. Work will commence in Year 1 with the  
Iraqi Arabic dictionary, proceed to the Syrian/Levantine dictionary  
and conclude with the Moroccan Arabic dictionary.

The proposed dictionaries and databases aim to provide U.S. students  
and teachers of Arabic with current dialectal Arabic lexical  
information to enable them to communicate orally with native and non- 
native Arabic speakers. The scholarship used to create a modernized  
transcription system and to provide existing and new terms in Arabic  
script (including diacritics) may also help integrate instruction in  
dialect and Modern Standard Arabic by providing tools for curriculum  
developers.

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