MADARi: A Web Interface for Joint Arabic Morphological Annotation and Spelling Correction

TL;DR

MADARi is a comprehensive web-based tool designed for joint morphological annotation and spelling correction of Arabic texts, supporting both Standard and Dialectal varieties, with features to enhance annotator productivity and manage large annotation projects.

Contribution

This paper introduces MADARi, a novel web interface that integrates morphological annotation and spelling correction for Arabic, with utilities for efficiency and remote management.

Findings

Improved annotation efficiency with pre-computed analyses.

Effective management of large annotation projects remotely.

Positive user feedback from the system's usability study.

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce MADARi, a joint morphological annotation and spelling correction system for texts in Standard and Dialectal Arabic. The MADARi framework provides intuitive interfaces for annotating text and managing the annotation process of a large number of sizable documents. Morphological annotation includes indicating, for a word, in context, its baseword, clitics, part-of-speech, lemma, gloss, and dialect identification. MADARi has a suite of utilities to help with annotator productivity. For example, annotators are provided with pre-computed analyses to assist them in their task and reduce the amount of work needed to complete it. MADARi also allows annotators to query a morphological analyzer for a list of possible analyses in multiple dialects or look up previously submitted analyses. The MADARi management interface enables a lead annotator to easily manage and organize the whole annotation process remotely and concurrently. We describe the motivation, design and implementation of this interface; and we present details from a user study working with this system.