arXiv:2608.02555cs.CL2026-08

研究阿拉伯语拉丁化书写习惯,揭示方言差异与使用模式。

Romanized Arabic Across Dialects: Views, Usage Patterns, and Linguistic Variation

  • 通过调查收集五种方言使用者的书写习惯与认知
  • 构建字符级对齐数据集,发现方言内规律与跨方言差异
  • 发布双语平行语料库,支持句级风格识别研究

Arabizi 指用拉丁字母书写的阿拉伯语。尽管已有研究显示其使用程度受地区与年龄影响,但多数自然语言处理研究仍将其视为技术限制导致的临时现象。本文通过访谈阿拉伯语使用者,深入调研其对 Arabizi 的认知与实际使用情况。聚焦阿尔及利亚、埃及、黎巴嫩、摩洛哥和突尼斯五种方言,我们发布了两项资源:一是基于受访者转写词的字符级对齐数据集,用于分析方言间与方言内的书写变异,发现系统性的方言内一致性与跨方言差异;二是由同五种方言母语者提供的、用阿拉伯文与多个 Arabizi 转写版本组成的句子级并行语料库,用于研究使用者在句级层面识别风格变异的能力。本研究是迄今为止最大规模的人类中心、跨方言的 Arabizi 研究。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Arabizi refers to Arabic written in Latin script. Although previous studies have shown that the prevalence and usage of Arabizi vary by factors such as region and age group, most NLP research on Arabic texts treats it as a temporary phenomenon resulting from limited technological support for the Arabic script. In this work, we engage with Arabic speakers to collect insights on their perceptions and usage of Arabizi. We further examine writing norms among speakers of different dialects, focusing on Algerian, Egyptian, Lebanese, Moroccan, and Tunisian Arabic. To this end, we release two resources. First, a character-level alignment of Arabic words to study inter- and intra-dialectal variation across these five dialects, based on words transliterated by survey participants, finding systematic intra-dialectal regularity and inter-dialectal variation. Second, to study Arabic speakers' ability to identify this stylistic variation at the sentence-level, we build a manually curated parallel corpus of sentences written in Arabic script alongside multiple Arabizi transliterations, collected from speakers of the same five dialects. Our study presents the largest human-centered, cross-dialectal study of Arabizi's perceptions and practices to date.

阿拉伯语方言研究文本转写社会语言学

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