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ELRA - European Language Resources Association<br>
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We are pleased to announce the new resources <br>
available in our catalogue of language resources:<br>
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ELRA W0030 Arabic Data Set<br>
ELRA W0031 GeFRePaC - German French Reciprocal<br>
Parallel Corpus<br>
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A short description of these two new resources is given<br>
below.<br>
Please visit the online catalogue to get further details: <br>
<a href="http://www.elda.fr/catalog.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.elda.fr/catalog.html</a><br>
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ELRA W0030 Arabic Data Set:<br>
The corpus contains Al-Hayat newspaper articles with<br>
value added for Language Engineering and Information<br>
Retrieval applications development purposes. Data has<br>
been organised in 7 subject specific databases according<br>
to the Al-Hayat subject tags. Mark-up, numbers, special<br>
characters and punctuation have been removed. The size<br>
of the total file is 268 MB. The dataset contains 18,639,264<br>
distinct tokens in 42,591 articles, organised in 7 domains.<br>
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ELRA W0031 GeFRePaC - German French Reciprocal<br>
Parallel Corpus:<br>
GeFRePac was produced in the framework of the LRsP&P<br>
project. It contains 30 million words : 15 million for the<br>
German language, 15 million for the French language.<br>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica">It covers natural general language as used
in<br>
public socio-political discourse and it has a focus on <br>
multilingual administration and commercial and legal<br>
documentation. It </font>was created for the purpose of<br>
developing, enhancing and improving translation aids. <br>
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