Arabic-L:LING:Lexical Database for Arabic Input

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 21 Apr 2006
From:timbuckwalter at qamus.org
Subject:Lexical Database for Arabic Input

The frequency data you describe assumes the use of a corpus. If so, some
lexical distribution figures (aka, dispersion indexes) may be useful,
possibly along the lines of what Kucera & Francis did with the Brown
corpus, or John Carroll's standard frequency index, etc. There are
probably more recent works. Also, if you plan to identify word-sense
subdivisions, you will find the numbered senses in Jan Hoogland's
Arabic-Dutch dictionary quite useful. Hoogland's dictionary is
considerably more up to date that Wehr's lexicon--and it's corpus based.
And finally, some attention to grammatical collocations would be nice:
this would allow us to search for things such as false idafahs, and
maybe even interesting grammatical mistakes.

Tim Buckwalter
Linguistic Data Consortium
Univ. of Pennsylvania

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