NYU Abu Dhabi launches Palestinian dialect resource Maknuune thefrontierpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thefrontierpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ABU DHABI, 15th February, 2023 (WAM) NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has released Maknuune, a large and open lexicon dedicated to documenting the Palestinian Arabic dialect through a comprehensive methodology.CAMeL Lab, a research and education lab focusing on artificial intelligence, natural language processing, computational linguistics, and data science, at NYUAD developed the lexicon. Conceptualised and spearheaded by PhD Student of Linguistics at the University of Oxford Shahd Dibas, the aspiring project was co-led by NYU Abu Dhabi’s Nizar Habash, a computer scientist specialising in computational.
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