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NYU Abu Dhabi Launches Maknuune, an Open Lexicon for the Palestinian Arabic Dialect

Science, Research, UAE

Leading Natural Language Processing Conference Kicks off in Abu Dhabi for the First Time This Week

Science, Partnerships, Research, Events, UAE, Abu Dhabi

NYU Abu Dhabi and MBZUAI Co-host Top Natural Language Processing Conference

Abu Dhabi, Language, Events, Research

Researchers Develop Large-scale Readability Leveled Thesaurus in Arabic

UAE, Language, Science, Research

App Aims to Employ Refugees to Digitize Arabic Documents

Engineering, Competitions

New Software Detects up to 25 Arabic Dialects

This public online interface visually identifies dialects of 25 different Arab cities, from Rabat to Muscat, along with Modern Standard Arabic.

Lost in Machine Translation

Computers are not good at translating Arabic. Here's why and how NYU Abu Dhabi is working on solutions.

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NYU Abu Dhabi launches Palestinian dialect resource Maknuune
The free online tool contains more than 36,000 entries, with users encouraged to add their own.
The National | February 17, 2023

NYU Abu Dhabi launches open lexicon for Palestinian Arabic dialect
NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has released Maknuune, a large and open lexicon dedicated to documenting the Palestinian Arabic dialect through a comprehensive methodology.
Emirates News Agency | February 15, 2023

UAE researchers develop unique Arabic thesaurus
The interface provides a novel way to search Arabic words, their related forms and English equivalents.
Khaleej Times | January 23, 2021

How do you say 'Hey Siri' in spoken Arabic? NYUAD lab is working on Gulf dialects to find the answer
A NYUAD database of Arabic words has paved the way for predictive text, speech recognition and speech synthesis in Gulf Arabic.
The National | June 01, 2020

Programmers at NYUAD to release Gulf Arabic text prediction software
Get ready for Siri to speak Arabic? A team of programmers at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) will release text prediction software for Gulf Arabic this year.
Enterprise | June 02, 2020