Keywords

Egyptian Arabic (EA) Corpus, Register Analysis, CALM Corpus

Abstract

The limited availability of Egyptian Arabic (EA) corpus resources, especially speech corpora, has left open opportunity for research into such dialect phenomena as register. In this paper we introduce a new two-millionword EA corpus, CALM. We perform a register analysis on EA between two subcorpora of CALM (i.e. Movies and Blogs), showing several features that vary between the two. A discussion follows about how annotation was carried out automatically, how it was handcorrected, and what the prospects are for carrying out similar studies using CALM.

Original Publication Citation

Verbs in Egyptian Arabic: a case for register variation. 3rd Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics(WACL-3), Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, July 2019. [co-author: Michael Grant White]