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<span>1)</span><br><span>Date: </span><span>03 Feb 2012</span><br><span>From:reposted from CORPORA</span><br><span>Subject:</span>Classical Arabic Corpora<div><br></div><div>[an exchange from CORPORA you might be interested in]<br>
<br><div>Dear Mai,</div><div>I guess you already know about the Quranic Arabic Corpus</div><div><a href="http://corpus.quran.com/" target="_blank">http://corpus.quran.com/</a> - annotated with morphological tagging,</div>
<div>pronoun reference resolution, parallel English translation, partial parsing etc; BUT this covers only the Quran,</div>
<div>c70K words (depending on how you tokenise Arabic into words)</div><div>Claudio Soria recommended the LRE Map</div><div><a href="http://www.resourcebook.eu/LreMap/faces/views/resourceMap.xhtml" target="_blank">http://www.resourcebook.eu/LreMap/faces/views/resourceMap.xhtml</a></div>
<div>BUT the Arabic corpora there are all Modern Standard Arabic, except for Qurany: A Tool to Search for Concepts in the Quran</div><div><a href="http://quranytopics.appspot.com/" target="_blank">http://quranytopics.appspot.com/</a></div>
<div> ... and this is also limited to the Quran</div><div>Gregory Crane's Perseus digital library of classical text is mainly</div><div>Classical Greek and Latin, but there is a section labelled "Arabic"</div>
<div> - BUT currently this contains the Quran, plus dictionaries</div><div>The Perseus website does have a pointer to another source:</div><div>"Perseus also wants to highlight the release on Alpheios.net of key texts in Classical Arabic, including Book of Songs, Arabian Nights, Arabic Reading Lessons, The Autobiography Of The Constantinopolitan</div>
<div>Story-Teller, Selection from the Annals of Tabari, Selections from</div><div>Arabic geographical literature and Voyages D'Ibn Batutah ..."</div><div>BUT while the Alpheios.net enables online reading, I am not clear</div>
<div>whether you can download a whole book as a corpus textfile.</div><div>At the NITS'2011 National Information Technology Symposium on "Arabic and Islamic Content on the Internet" at King Saud</div><div>University, Riyadh, Mansour Alhamdi outlined the KACST initiative</div>
<div>to collect a large Arabic corpus including Classical and Modern Arabic</div><div><a href="http://nits2011.ksu.edu.sa/en/cap/CD/Keynote%20Speakers/Mansour%20Alghamdi.pdf" target="_blank">http://nits2011.ksu.edu.sa/en/cap/CD/Keynote%20Speakers/Mansour%20Alghamdi.pdf</a></div>
<div>BUT I have not heard how far this has succeeded yet.</div><div>I believe the Kuwait government ministry of religious studies has plans to put online its collection of Classical Arabic texts; but again I have no news of progress on this.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you get any better answers, do please let me know</div><div>Eric Atwell, Leeds University</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Mai Zaki wrote:</div><div>Dear all,</div><div>I was wondering if you could advise me if there are any available corpora</div>
<div>for Classical Written Arabic in any genre. I'm looking for a corpus of</div><div>Written Arabic of any age between the Classical Arabic of the Qur'an and</div><div>Modern Standard Arabic.</div><div>Thanks a lot in advance,</div>
<div>Mai Zaki</div><div><br></div><span>------------------------------</span><span>------------------------------</span><span>--------------</span><br>
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