An Arabic Dialects Dictionary Using Word Embeddings

The Need Of A Multi-Dialect Corpus For Arabic Language

Arabic is considered one of the most used Semitic languages with almost 422 million speakers around 22 countries. In addition, it has a huge sphere of influence in the rest of the world since it is the language of the Quran, the holy book of Islam and was the language of science and technologies in the middle ages (Darwish, 2014; Boudad, Faizi, Oulad Haj Thami, & Chiheb, 2017). Further, the Arabic Language is ranked as the seventh top language, and the fastest growing language on the web as Table 1 shows, with over 140 million internet users in the Middle East and North African countries according to (Miniwatts Marketing Group, 2018) which explain the considerable interest that the Arabic language is gaining from the NLP research community. In this paragraph, the authors will give a brief description of the Arabic script, Arabic morphological complexities and the different varieties of the language.