Arabic-L:LING&PEDA:New Version of On-line Arabic Corpus

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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1) Subject:New Version of On-line Arabic Corpus

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Date: 17 Mar 2006
From:rDilworth Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:NNew Version of On-line Arabic Corpus

This is to announce a new version of the free online Arabic corpus  
access tool I have been developing.  The new site has the following URL:

arabiCorpus.byu.edu

Note that it has only one 'c'.  First time users should register  
their e-mail address, and thereafter log in with that address.  This  
new version is more 'designed' than the former (arCorpus.byu.edu),  
and it adds a number of features, the most important of which that it  
saves the results of the search in a database, so that you can move  
to different pages and different sortings and views with very little  
delay.
Other features include the ability to see references, and to access  
the entire context of a citation.  The ability of the program to deal  
with embedded English has been improved, and corpora have been  
combined into 'natural' groupings, allowing you to search more than  
one thing at once.
However, of course, the more things you search at once, the longer  
your 'wait' will be.
It is fairly easy to add electronic corpora to this tool, so if any  
of you have electronic versions of texts you would like to send in, I  
will try to accommodate them.  I would like to have a collection of  
medieval texts, a collection of modern literature, and a collection  
of no-fiction prose that is also non-newspaper.  This would allow  
users to make fast comparisons over 'time' and over 'genre'.
This tool can be used to find citations for lexicographical and  
scholarly purposes, but it was also designed with the advanced  
student of Arabic in mind.  The hope is that teachers will be able to  
send students to this site with the instruction to find 5-10 good  
examples of a particular word, construction or idiom, and it will  
motivate the students to search and discover about the language on  
their own.
Please send feedback to dil at byu.edu.  I look forward to hearing from  
you, including suggestions for improvements.

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