Arabic-L:LING:Arabic Corpus Responses

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Date: 31 May 2000
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Arabic Corpus Response

Karam,
for concordancing Arabic: see Monoconc at: www.athel.com
for building a corpus I would suggest you to search the net: there's a huge
amount of Arabic text data available.
for example: http://www.raya.com/indexw.htm

Jan

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2)
Date: 31 May 2000
From: SHAWKY at aucegypt.edu
Subject: Arabic Corpus Response

Dear colleague,
I am working at the moment on my MA thesis , IN TAFL, and I have have been
recently working on word count, measuring the most frequent words in MSA
such as fi- peposition. and slos the high frequency for the nominal
sentence -as part of thethe most frequently counttted words and structures
in MSA. mail you ht
Nehad Shawky.
NB: I might tell you about my thesis topic next time inshaaallah.

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3)
Date: 31 May 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Arabic Corpus Response

  I have had good luck with Watt's
concordance at http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/ .  You can use it for a
month then you must register it fot $99 USD.  It sorts by context and
gives statistical information.  If you are working with more than one file
you need to chunk everything together into one file, but c'est la guerre,
yaa Habiibi! It also works for any script that you have installed on your
system.

  I have had absolutely no luck with Mike Barlow's/Athelstan's MonoConc.
I could never get it to properly read and display Arabic characters.  Jan
Hoogland was kind enough to show me how to get it to do command line
searches of a single item (or grep wildcard item) which is OK if you know
what to look for.  Mike Barlow was no help and insisted that the problem
was with my setup and not his software.  He offered to reimburse me on my
purchase (I have the emails) which he later reneged on.  My Arabic setup,
sorts just fine in Word, so I can only conclude that MonoCOnc cannot do
the sorting by frequency etc. that I wanted it to do and that I saw it
do for English when I bought it.
.............
  In any event Monoconc doesn't do
the things for Arabic that Watt's Concordance does effortlessly, and for
the same price.

cheers,
andy

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