<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Arabic-L: Tue 20 Nov 2007</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">1) Subject:Arabic Gigaword Third Edition</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">1)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Date: 20 Nov 2007</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">From:<a href="mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu">ldc@ldc.upenn.edu</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Subject:Arabic Gigaword Third Edition</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(1) <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2007T40"><font color="#000af1" style="color: #000af1"><u>Arabic Gigaword Third Edition</u></font></a> is a comprehensive archive of newswire text data acquired from Arabic news sources by the LDC at the University of Pennsylvania. Arabic Gigaword Third Edition includes all of the content of <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2006T02"><font color="#000af1" style="color: #000af1"><u>Arabic Gigaword Second Edition (LDC2006T02)</u></font></a> as well as new data collected after the publication of that edition. Also, an archive from a new newswire source -- Assabah -- has been included in the third edition.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The six distinct sources of Arabic newswire represented in the third edition are:</font></p> <ul> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Agence France Presse (afp_arb)</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Assabah (asb_arb)</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Al Hayat (hyt_arb)</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">An Nahar (nhr_arb)</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Ummah Press (umh_arb)</font></li> <li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Xinhua News Agency (xin_arb)</font></li> </ul><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The seven-character codes in the parantheses above consist of the three-character source name IDs and the three-character language code ("arb") separated by an underscore ("_") character.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The epochs and document counts for the data in the third edition are set forth below:</font></p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="padding: 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="4" valign="middle" style="width: 431.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p align="center" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; text-align: center"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Newly Added Data</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="middle" style="width: 130.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 100.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 92.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 97.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="middle" style="width: 130.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Source</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 100.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Date Span</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 92.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Document Count</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 97.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="middle" style="width: 130.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Agence France Presse</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 100.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2005.01 - 2006.12</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 92.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">137815</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 97.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="middle" style="width: 130.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Assabah News Agency</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 100.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2004.09 - 2006.12</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 92.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">15410</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 97.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(new source)</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="middle" style="width: 130.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Al Hayat News Agency</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 100.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2005.01 - 2006.1</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 92.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">8799</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 97.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(no data for 2004)</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="middle" style="width: 130.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">An Nahar News Agency</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 100.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2005.01 - 2006.12</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 92.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">104950</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 97.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(no data for 2004)</font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="middle" style="width: 130.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Xinhua News Agency</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 100.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2005.01 - 2006.12</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 92.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">135472</font></p> </td> <td valign="middle" style="width: 97.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px 1.0px"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">This release contains 547 files, totaling approximately 1.8GB in compressed form (6,673 MB uncompressed) and 1,994,735 K-words. Arabic Gigaword Third Edition is distributed on one DVD-ROM.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2007 Subscription Members will automatically receive two copies of this corpus. 2007 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Nonmembers may license this data for US$4000.</font></p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">End of Arabic-L: 20 Nov 2007</font></div>
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