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Transcribing spoken Arabic dialects is an important task for building speech corpora. Therefore, it is necessary to follow a definite orthography and a definite annotation to transcribe speech data. In this paper, we present OTTA, Orthographic Transcription for Tunisian Arabic. This convention proposes the use of some rules based on the standard Arabic transcription conventions and we define a set of conventions which preserve the particularities of Tunisian dialect.
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Zribi, I., Graja, M., Khmekhem, M.E., Jaoua, M., Belguith, L.H. (2013). Orthographic Transcription for Spoken Tunisian Arabic. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7816. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37247-6_13
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