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Nora S. AlTwairesh

Assistant Professor

Head, Information Technology Department

علوم الحاسب والمعلومات
KSU Female Campus - Building 6 T121
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Conference Paper
2016

MADAD: A Readability Annotation Tool for Arabic Text

Al-Shenaifi, Nora Al-Twairesh, Abeer Al-Dayel, Hend Al-Khalifa, Maha Al-Yahya, Sinaa Alageel, Nora Abanmy and Nouf . 2016

This paper introduces MADAD, a general-purpose annotation tool for Arabic text with focus on readability annotation. This tool will help in overcoming the problem of lack of Arabic readability training data by providing an online environment to collect readability assessments on various kinds of corpora. Also the tool supports a broad range of annotation tasks for various linguistic and semantic phenomena by allowing users to create their customized annotation schemes. MADAD is a web-based tool, accessible through any web browser; the main features that distinguish MADAD are its flexibility, portability, customizability and its bilingual interface (Arabic/English).

Conference Location
Portorož, Slovenia
Conference Name
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)
Sponsoring Organization
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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