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<p class=MsoNormal>The Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>-----------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of
EASC 1.0,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus, free of charge for
research purposes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The EASC is an Arabic natural language resources. It
contains 153<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Arabic articles and 765 human-generated extractive summaries
of those<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>articles. These summaries were generated using Mechanical
Turk<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(<a href="http://www.mturk.com/">http://www.mturk.com/</a>).
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>You can request a copy of the EASC corpus through<span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> the </span>following link:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(<a href="http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/easc.htm">http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/easc.htm</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Among the major features of EASC are:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Names and extensions are formatted to be compatible with
current<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> evaluation systems such as ROUGE and
AutoSummENG.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Available in two encoding formats UTF-8 and ISO-8859-6
(Arabic).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Extra files:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(Does not come with the corpus and can be provided
separately only).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Arabic version of ROUGE <ROUGE-l.5.5.pl><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> To request for ROUGE: (<a
href="http://berouge.com/default.aspx">http://berouge.com/default.aspx</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* ROUGE Arabic XML configuration file.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* ROUGE Arabic lst input file. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* 153 single-sentence Arabic system summaries <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> (could be used as testing baseline).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The Essex Arabic Summaries Corpus (EASC) uses copyright
material.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Users of the corpus are responsible for ensuring that they
comply with<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>the terms of the copyrights that apply to the source
material and the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>derived works (summaries) and the terms of relevant
copyright law.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Any other original data that is distributed with this corpus
is<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>made available under the Creative Commons Attributive/Share
Alike<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>licence (<a
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/</a>).
You must<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>provide details of the source of the material when using it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The EASC was created by Mahmoud El-Haj
<melhaj@essex.ac.uk>, under<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>the supervision of Dr Udo Kruschwitz <udo@essex.ac.uk>
and Dr Chris Fox<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><foxcj@essex.ac.uk>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Corpus URL: (<a
href="http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/easc.htm">http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/easc.htm</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering,
University of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, United
Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Mahmoud EL-Haj<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/"><span style='color:blue'>http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~melhaj/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>School Computer
Science and Electronic Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Essex University,
Wivenhoe Park, <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'>Colchester CO4
3SQ, United Kingdom. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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