- Mona T. Diab, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Mohamed Altantawy, Yassine Benajiba. 2011. COLABA : Arabic Dialect Annotation and Processing. Abstract: In this paper, we describe COLABA, a large effort to create resources and processing tools for Dialectal Arabic Blogs. We describe the objectives of the project, the process flow and the interaction between the different components. We briefly describe the manual annotation effort and the resources created. Finally, we sketch how these resources and tools are put together to create DIRA, a termexpansion tool for information retrieval over dialectal Arabic collections using Modern Standard Arabic queries.
