Introduction

The Arabic English Newswire Translation Collection was produced by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). It consists of approximately 550,000 words of Arabic newswire text and its English translation from Agence France Presse (France), An Nahar (Lebanon) and Assabah (Tunisia). The source Arabic text was used in LDC's Arabic Treebank, specifically, in Part 1 (Part 1 v. 2.0; Part 1 v. 3.0), Part 3 (Part 3 v. 1.0; Part 3 v. 2.0) and Part 4 (Part 4 v. 1.0). A subset of Agence France Presse (AFP) source text from Arabic Treebank: Part 1 v. 2.0 was previously translated and released by LDC in Arabic Treebank: Part 1 - 10K-word English Translation, LDC2003T07. The English translations in this corpus were provided by translation agencies using LDC's Arabic Translation Guidelines.

Data

The number of stories and their epochs for each source are as follows:

AFP	734 stories; July 2000 - November 2000
An Nahar	600 stories; January 2002 - December 2002
Assabah	397 stories; September 2004 - November 2004
Total	1731 stories

Word count of Arabic tokens by source is shown in the following table:

AFP	102,564
An Nahar	299,681
Assabah	149,259
Total	551,504

The original source files used different encodings for the Arabic characters, including UTF8 and ASMO. SGML tags were used for marking sentence and paragraph boundaries and for annotating other information about each story. All Arabic source data was converted to UTF and most SGML tags were removed or replaced by "plain text" markers.

Samples

• Arabic Source
• English Translation

Content Copyright

Portions © 2000 Agence-France Presse, © 2002 An Nahar, © 2004 Assabah, © 2002-2005, 2009 Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania