Arabic-L:LING:Concordances for Arabic

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Date: 7 Jul 2006
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Subject:Concordances for Arabic

I thought some of you might like to see the following exchange from  
Corpora-List:

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I would like to hear from anyone about the availability of a reliable  
and friendly concordancer for Arabic. Thanks.
Georgette Jabbour

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There is an overview of current concordancers in the latest issue of  
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
http://www.degruyter.de/rs/384_7546_DEU_h.htm

A couple of programs tested there meet the required criteria.
(In case you don't have access to this resource, I would be happy to  
provide you with a prefinal draft of this article.)

best,
Daniel Wiechmann

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By coincidence, there is also a review of concordancers applied to
Arabic texts in

  Roberts, Andrew; Al-Sulaiti, Latifa; and Atwell, Eric. 2006.
  aConCorde: Towards an Open-Source, Extendable Concordancer for Arabic.
  To appear in issue 1.1 of the new journal CORPORA, see
  http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/journals/content.aspx?pageId=1&journalId=12505

We compare Arabic concordance via "market leaders" MonoConc,  
Wordsmith, and Xaira with aConCorde, our free open-source  
concordancer; for more
details see http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic

- naturally, I would encourage you to use aConCorde!
(and to subscribe to CORPORA :-)


Eric Atwell, Leeds University

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