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1) Subject: Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC)
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Date: 08 Jul 2010
From: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; font-size: medium; ">"El-Haj, Mahmoud" <</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; font-size: medium; "><a href="mailto:melhaj@essex.ac.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">melhaj@essex.ac.uk</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal; font-size: medium; ">></span>
Subject: Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC)
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The Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC)
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We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of EASC 1.0,
Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus, free of charge for research purposes.
The EASC is an Arabic natural language resources. It contains 153
Arabic articles and 765 human-generated extractive summaries of those
articles. These summaries were generated using Mechanical Turk
(<a href="http://www.mturk.com/">http://www.mturk.com/</a>).
You can directly download a copy of the EASC corpus by visiting the
following link:
(<a href="http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/easc.htm">http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/easc.htm</a>)
Among the major features of EASC are:
* Names and extensions are formatted to be compatible with current
evaluation systems such as ROUGE and AutoSummENG.
* Available in two encoding formats UTF-8 and ISO-8859-6 (Arabic).
The Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC) uses copyright material.
Users of the corpus are responsible for ensuring that they comply with
the terms of the copyrights that apply to the source material and the
derived works (summaries) and the terms of relevant copyright law.
Any other original data that is distributed with this corpus is
made available under the Creative Commons Attributive/Share Alike
licence (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</a>). You must
provide details of the source of the material when using it.
EASC Corpus Reference Paper:
M. El-Haj, U. Kruschwitz, and C. Fox. Using Mechanical Turk to Create a Corpus of Arabic Summaries"
in the Language Resources (LRs) and Human Language Technologies (HLT) for Semitic Languages
workshop held in conjunction with the 7th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
(LREC 2010), pages 36-39, Valletta, Malta.
(<a href="http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/docs/LREC2010-MTurk-Final_v2.pdf">http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/docs/LREC2010-MTurk-Final_v2.pdf</a>)
EASC Corpus Bibtex Reference:
@inproceedings{Elhaj2010,
title={{Using Mechanical Turk to Create a Corpus of Arabic Summaries}},
author={El-Haj, M. and Kruschwitz, U. and Fox, C.},
booktitle={Language Resources (LRs) and Human
Language Technologies (HLT) for Semitic Languages workshop
to be held in conjunction with the 7th International Language
Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010).},
year={2010},
publisher={LREC 2010},
pages={36--39},
address = {Valletta, Malta}
}
--
The EASC was created by Mahmoud El-Haj <<a href="mailto:melhaj@essex.ac.uk">melhaj@essex.ac.uk</a>>, under
the supervision of Dr Udo Kruschwitz <<a href="mailto:udo@essex.ac.uk">udo@essex.ac.uk</a>> and Dr Chris Fox
<<a href="mailto:foxcj@essex.ac.uk">foxcj@essex.ac.uk</a>>.
Corpus URL: (<a href="http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/easc.htm">http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/easc.htm</a>)
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of
Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom.
Best wishes,
Mahmoud EL-Haj
<a href="http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/">http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/</a>
School Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Essex University, Wivenhoe Park,
Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom.
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