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Moroccan Dialect -Darija- Open Dataset

Computation and Language 2021-03-18 v1

Abstract

Darija Open Dataset (DODa) is an open-source project for the Moroccan dialect. With more than 10,000 entries DODa is arguably the largest open-source collaborative project for Darija-English translation built for Natural Language Processing purposes. In fact, besides semantic categorization, DODa also adopts a syntactic one, presents words under different spellings, offers verb-to-noun and masculine-to-feminine correspondences, contains the conjugation of hundreds of verbs in different tenses, and many other subsets to help researchers better understand and study Moroccan dialect. This data paper presents a description of DODa, its features, how it was collected, as well as a first application in Image Classification using ImageNet labels translated to Darija. This collaborative project is hosted on GitHub platform under MIT's Open-Source license and aims to be a standard resource for researchers, students, and anyone who is interested in Moroccan Dialect

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2103.09687,
  title  = {Moroccan Dialect -Darija- Open Dataset},
  author = {Aissam Outchakoucht and Hamza Es-Samaali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.09687},
  year   = {2021}
}
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