LDC Catalog

Arabic Newswire Part 1


Item Name:	Arabic Newswire Part 1
Authors:	David Graff and Kevin Walker
LDC Catalog No.:	LDC2001T55
ISBN:	1-58563-190-6
Data Type:	text
Data Source(s):	newswire
Project(s):	EARS, GALE, TIDES, TREC
Application(s):	information retrieval, language modeling
Language(s):	Modern Standard Arabic
Language ID(s):	arb
Distribution:	1 CD
Member fee:	$0 for 2001 members
Non-member Fee:	US $1200.00
Reduced-License Fee:	US $600.00
Extra-Copy Fee:	US $150.00
Non-member License:	yes
Online documentation:	yes
Licensing Instructions:	Subscription Members, Standard Members, Non-Members
Citation:	David Graff and Kevin Walker 2001 Arabic Newswire Part 1 Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia

Introduction This publication contains the Arabic Newswire A Corpus, Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2001T55 and ISBN 1-58563-190-6. The Arabic Newswire Corpus is composed of articles from the Agence France Presse (AFP) Arabic Newswire. The source material was tagged using TIPSTER-style SGML and was transcoded to Unicode (UTF-8). The corpus includes articles from May 13, 1994 to December 20, 2000. Data The data is in 2,337 compressed (zipped) Arabic text data files. There are 209 Mb of compressed data (869 Mb uncompressed) with approximately 383,872 documents containing 76 million tokens over approximately 666,094 unique words. A template of the tagging is presented below. yyyymmdd_AFP_ARB.dddd Arabic Text Arabic Text One or More Paragraphs of Arabic Text Arabic Text Arabic Text For a sample file of tagged articles, please see this sample. Updates There are no updates at this time. Content Copyright Portions © 1994-2000 Agence France Press

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