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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Hi all</font></span></p>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">I am working on a research project investigating Arabic text classification.
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<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">The first part of this project, required building a corpus to train and test the classifier.
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<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Are there are any criteria or standards must be followed to build such a corpus.
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<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; DIRECTION: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Mohsen </font></span></p></strong></span>