<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">------------</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Arabic-L: Wed 05 Feb 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <</span><a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">[To post messages to the list, send them to </span><a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">arabic-l@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">]</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">listserv@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> with first line reading:</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">-------------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Directory---------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">---------------</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1) Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">Trial Release of International Corpus of Arabic</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">-------------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Messages----------------------</span><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">-------------</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">05 Feb 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Sameh Alansary <<a href="mailto:Sameh.Alansary@bibalex.org" target="_blank">Sameh.Alansary@bibalex.org</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">Trial Release of International Corpus of Arabic</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear Arabic List,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I would like to announce the first phase of the trial release of the International Corpus of Arabic (ICA). ICA attempts to build a representative corpus of the Arabic language as it is used all over the Arab world, with the aim of supporting research on linguistics in general and on Arabic computational linguistics in particular. The ICA is planned to contain 100 million words, the current situation demonstrates that almost 80% of the corpus is accomplished. ICA may represent a systematic investigation of national varieties within the Arabic speaking community as far as MSA is concerned. We hope that this should prove very useful for linguists who believe that their theories and descriptions of language should be based on real, rather than contrived, data.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In collecting ICA, the main focus was to cover the same genres from different sources and from all around the Arab world. Hence, the ICA covers numerous sources (Newspapers, web articles, books.. etc.) and numerous genres (Literature, Politics, Science Arts, Sports .. etc.).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Currently, this stage includes the morphological analysis of each word within the corpus, where the analysis lists number of information such as Prefix(s), Suffix(s), Word Class, Stem, Lemma, Root, Stem Pattern as well as Number, Gender and Definiteness according to the different contexts of the words within the corpus. All such information will be used in the search.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I would like to invite all of you who are interested, to use the corpus at </span><a href="http://www.bibalex.org/ica" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">www.bibalex.org/ica</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><</span><a href="http://www.bibalex.org/ica" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www.bibalex.org/ica</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> , and of course we welcome your comments for improvements to the corpus official email address </span><a href="mailto:ica@bibalex.org" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">ica@bibalex.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><mailto:</span><a href="mailto:ica@bibalex.org" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">ica@bibalex.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Best Regards,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Sameh Alansary, Professor,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Arabic Computational Linguistic Center, Director,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Bibliotheca Alexandrina,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">P.O.Box 138,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">21526 El Shatby, Alexandria,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Tel: </span><a href="tel:%2B20-3-4839999%20Ext.%202788" value="+2034839999" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">+20-3-4839999 Ext. 2788</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Fax: </span><a href="tel:%2B20-3-4820405" value="+2034820405" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">+20-3-4820405</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:sameh.alansary@bibalex.org" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">sameh.alansary@bibalex.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">mailto:</span><a href="mailto:sameh.alansary@bibalex.org" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">sameh.alansary@bibalex.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
End of Arabic-L: 05 Feb 2014</div></div>