“…The NLP approaches generally applied lexical resources for the target language. Such resources are useful in several tasks which involve a language meaning understanding like: opinion mining (Kim et al, 2004;Bouchlaghem et al 2010), information retrieval (Valeras et al, 2005;Rosso et al, 2004), query expansion (Parapar et al, 2005), text categorization (Rosso et al, 2004;Ramakrishnan et al, 2003), and many other applications. However, this situation poses significant difficulties in the context of dialectal data because of the huge lack of Dialect-Standard Arabic lexical resources.…”