Arabic-L:LING:Lexical Resources Responses

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1) Subject: Lexical Resources Response
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Date: 26 Jan 2000
From: Yaser Al-Onaizan <yaser at ISI.EDU>
Subject: Lexical Resources Response

Greetings,

A bunch of classical Arabic-Arabic dictionaries are available on the Sakhr web
site at http://lexicons.sakhr.com/ . These include: Al-MuhaiT, muhaiT
Al-MuhaiT,  Lisan Al-Arab, Al-mua'jm Al-waseeT, Al-Ghany, and Al-Qamoos
Al-MuhaiT. They are searchable by Arabic lexical surface word , its root, or
synonyms and also by its English meaning (or equivalent). The interface to
those are in Arabic, so obviously you need to be able to read and type in
Arabic.

I'm not a linguist, so I'm not so sure if this is what you are looking for.
Any way, I hope  it would be useful for you and others.

Regards,
Yaser

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Date: 26 Jan 2000
From: Tim Buckwalter <tbuckwalter at tegic.com>
Subject: Lexical Resources Response

John:

If I understood correctly, you want to be able to search for words according
to their pattern morphermes? This would be a useful feature, but nobody
seems to be including that information in online dictionaries (see the Sakhr
website for state-of-the-art online web-based dictionaries:
http://lexicons.sakhr.com/). About a decade ago I compiled an Arabic
electronic dictionary for Alpnet in which the entries were coded for root,
pattern, and inflectional suffix properties. This lexicon is now in use at
Xerox (http://www.xrce.xerox.com/research/mltt/arabic/) as part of an
Arabic-to-English machine-translation program. As far as I know, the lexicon
is not available separately, but it should be possible to extract
pattern-morpheme data (and more) from it (through the application of
pattern-matching scripts). [BTW, my personal website and e-mail info at the
Xerox site is out of date; my website has moved:
http://my.ispchannel.com/~tbuckwalter/]

Tim Buckwalter

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