ELRA - W0042 : NEMLAR Written Corpus

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Catalog Reference : W0042

NEMLAR Written Corpus

This corpus was produced within the NEMLAR project (http://www.nemlar.org). Two other resources, produced within the same project, are also available: NEMLAR Broadcast News Speech Corpus (ELRA-S0219) and the NEMLAR Speech Synthesis Corpus (ELRA-S0220).

The NEMLAR Written Corpus consists of about 500,000 words of Arabic text from 13 different categories, aiming to achieve a well-balanced corpus that offers a representation of the variety in syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of modern Arabic language. The different categories are:
• Political news: 48,000 words
• Political debate: 30,000 words
• Islamic text (Preaching and others): 29,000 words
• Phrases of common words: 8,500 words
• Text from broadcast news: 5,500 words
• Business: 20,000 words
• Arabic literature: 30,000 words
• General news: 100,000 words
• Interviews: 56,000 words
• Scientific press: 50,000 words
• Sports press: 50,000 words
• Dictionary entries explanation: 52,000 words
• Legal domain text: 21,000 words

The time span of the data included goes from late 1990’s to 2005.

The corpus is provided in 4 different versions:
• Raw text
• Fully vowelized text
• Text with Arabic lexical analysis
• Text with Arabic POS-tags

Diacritics, lexical analysis and POS-tags were generated by RDI’s tool Fassieh©. The accuracy of the automatic analysis is around 95%. To reach about the 99% accuracy rate as defined for this corpus, the linguists used the visual revision mode of Fassieh© where the linguist has to either approve the 1st most likely analysis (most of the time) or select another one manually (in the 4% minority of the cases).

The database is distributed on 1 ISO 9660 CD-ROM volume. It has been validated by an external partner and a validation report is provided.

Production

Project : NEMLAR (Network for Euro-Mediterranean LAnguage Resources)

Technical Information

development mode : Semi Automatic

Distribution medium : CD-ROM

Contents

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written corpus

Resource files

Validation report

Members Prices

Academic - Commercial 1000.00 EUR

Academic - Research 150.00 EUR

Commercial - Commercial 1000.00 EUR

Commercial - Research 250.00 EUR

Non Member Prices

Academic - Commercial 2000.00 EUR

Academic - Research 300.00 EUR

Commercial - Commercial 2000.00 EUR

Commercial - Research 500.00 EUR

Special Prices

Discounts are available if you purchase several NEMLAR resources (W0042, S0219 and S0220):
• 15% discount for 2 resources,
• 30% discount for 3 resources.