Arabic-L:LING:Classical Arabic Corpora

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Date: 03 Feb 2012
From:reposted from CORPORA
Subject:Classical Arabic Corpora

[an exchange from CORPORA you might be interested in]

Dear Mai,
I guess you already know about the Quranic Arabic Corpus
http://corpus.quran.com/  - annotated with morphological tagging,
pronoun reference resolution, parallel English translation, partial parsing
etc;  BUT this covers only the Quran,
c70K words (depending on how you tokenise Arabic into words)
Claudio Soria recommended the LRE Map
http://www.resourcebook.eu/LreMap/faces/views/resourceMap.xhtml
BUT the Arabic corpora there are all Modern Standard Arabic, except for
Qurany: A Tool to Search for Concepts in the Quran
http://quranytopics.appspot.com/
 ... and this is also limited to the Quran
Gregory Crane's Perseus digital library of classical text is mainly
Classical Greek and Latin, but there is a section labelled "Arabic"
 - BUT currently this contains the Quran, plus dictionaries
The Perseus website does have a pointer to another source:
"Perseus also wants to highlight the release on Alpheios.net of key texts
in Classical Arabic, including Book of Songs, Arabian Nights, Arabic
Reading Lessons, The Autobiography Of The Constantinopolitan
Story-Teller, Selection from the Annals of Tabari, Selections from
Arabic geographical literature and Voyages D'Ibn Batutah ..."
BUT while the Alpheios.net enables online reading, I am not clear
whether you can download a whole book as a corpus textfile.
At the NITS'2011 National Information Technology Symposium on "Arabic and
Islamic Content on the Internet" at King Saud
University, Riyadh, Mansour Alhamdi outlined the KACST initiative
to collect a large Arabic corpus including Classical and Modern Arabic
http://nits2011.ksu.edu.sa/en/cap/CD/Keynote%20Speakers/Mansour%20Alghamdi.pdf
BUT I have not heard how far this has succeeded yet.
I believe the Kuwait government ministry of religious studies has plans to
put online its collection of Classical Arabic texts; but again I have no
news of progress on this.

If you get any better answers, do please let me know
Eric Atwell, Leeds University


On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Mai Zaki wrote:
Dear all,
I was wondering if you could advise me if there are any available corpora
for Classical Written Arabic in any genre. I'm looking for a corpus of
Written Arabic of any age between the Classical Arabic of the Qur'an and
Modern Standard Arabic.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Mai Zaki

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