Corpora: seeking help

[SHEREEN KHOJA]

Hi,

You did not specify what kind of Arabic you were looking for
(i.e. Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic, or one of the dialects). I
have a small corpus of MSA newspaper text, 1600 words of which are
Part-of-speech tagged. I could give you a copy of this but I need to know
what encoding you prefer (Unicode, cp-1256, ISO 8859-6).

Regarding parallel corpora, I don't know of any, but I think the BBC
Arabic news website display some articles in Arabic that are translations
of the English articles and so could probably be aligned.

Regards,
Shereen Khoja
Lancaster University
s.khoja at lancaster.ac.uk

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, aladdin kharabsheh wrote:

>  hi
>
> i am aph.d student.i am doing my research in
> translation in manchester.my study is a corpus-based
> studies.
>
> i need parallel corpora in computer science as i have
> chosen the technical translation. my parallel corpora
> should be english -arabic .
>
> untill now i have not found any source from which i
> can construct my corpora or texts, please , if you
> know about any website  , organization...etc and
> provide me with the neccessary information  to contact
> them , i will be more than thankful
>
> .N.B. in case you do not have any ides about  parallel
> corpora , i am interested also in  building a
> monolingual corpus in the same above mentioned field
>
> thanks in advance for your help
>
> my best regards
>
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