Arabic-L:LING:Root frequency

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Date: 11 Feb 2008
From:Karin Ryding <rydingk at georgetown.edu>
Subject:Root frequency

In response to Laila Familiar's query about works on Arabic root  
frequency, I would suggest a 1983 article by Harmut Bobzin, "On the  
frequency of verbs in modern newspaper Arabic," in Al-Abhath, vol. 31,  
pp. 45-63.  He lists actual verbs - not roots - but the roots are of  
course derivable from his information.  His bibliography also lists a  
couple other sources. All the best, Karin Ryding

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Date: 11 Feb 2008
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Root frequency

In response to Laila Familiar's query about whether it is possible to  
derive information on root frequency from arabiCorpus.byu.edu, the  
answer is, unfortunately, no.  That site is based on an entirely  
untagged corpus, and no one yet has the technology to accurately  
derive roots from an untagged corpus without massive hand intervention.
There are tagged corpora, most notably some available from the Penn  
Treebank.  Tim Buckwalter can give a better response about that, but  
it seems to me that originally they were tagged for lemma and part of  
speech, but NOT for root, whereas now he seems to be tagging some for  
root as well.  Tim, are there any available now that are tagged for  
root?
dil

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