Name: Curras: an annotated corpus for the Palestinian Arabic dialect
Description: Curras: a dataset for Palestinian Arabic with rich metadata including POS tagging, lemma, stem, and other 
Provider: birzeit university
Paper Title: Curras: an annotated corpus for the Palestinian Arabic dialect
Tasks: named entity recognition, stemming, lemmatization
Venue Name: Language Resource & Evaluation
Authors: Mustafa Jarrar, Nizar Habash, Faeq Alrimawi, Diyam Akra, Nasser Zalmout
Abstract: In this article we present Curras, the first morphologically annotated
  corpus of the Palestinian Arabic dialect. Palestinian Arabic is one of the many
  primarily spoken dialects of the Arabic language. Arabic dialects are generally
  under-resourced compared to Modern Standard Arabic, the primarily written and
  official form of Arabic. We start in the article with a background description that
  situates Palestinian Arabic linguistically and historically and compares it to Modern
  Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic in terms of phonological, morphological,
  orthographic, and lexical variations. We then describe the methodology we developed to collect Palestinian Arabic text to guarantee a variety of representative
  domains and genres. We also discuss the annotation process we used, which
  extended previous efforts for annotation guideline development, and utilized
  existing automatic annotation solutions for Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.
  The annotation guidelines and annotation meta-data are described in detail. The
  Curras Palestinian Arabic corpus consists of more than 56 K tokens, which are annotated with rich morphological and lexical features. The inter-annotator agreement results indicate a high degree of consistency.