Compilation of an Arabic children’s corpus

Latifa Al-Sulaiti; Noorhan Abbas; Claire Brierley; Eric Atwell; Ayman Alghamdi

Compilation of an Arabic children’s corpus

Latifa Al-Sulaiti
, Noorhan Abbas
, Claire Brierley
, Eric Atwell
, Ayman Alghamdi

University of Cumbria

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Abstract

Inspired by the Oxford Children's Corpus, we have developed a prototype corpus of Arabic texts written and/or selected for children. Our Arabic Children's Corpus of 2950 documents and nearly 2 million words has been collected manually from the web during a 3-month project. It is of high quality, and contains a range of different children's genres based on sources located, including classic tales from The Arabian Nights, and popular fictional characters such as Goha. We anticipate that the current and subsequent versions of our corpus will lead to interesting studies in text classification, language use, and ideology in children's texts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia
Editors	Bente Maegaard, Hélène Mazo, Asunción Moreno, Khalid Choukri, Marko Grobelnik, Joseph Mariani, Nicoletta Calzolari, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
Place of Publication	Paris, France
Publisher	European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages	1808-1812
ISBN (Print)	9782951740891
Publication status	Published online - 2016

Keywords

Arabic
children's corpus
genre classification

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Al-Sulaiti, L., Abbas, N., Brierley, C., Atwell, E., & Alghamdi, A. (2016). Compilation of an Arabic children’s corpus. In B. Maegaard, H. Mazo, A. Moreno, K. Choukri, M. Grobelnik, J. Mariani, N. Calzolari, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, J. Odijk, & S. Piperidis (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia (pp. 1808-1812). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). Advance online publication. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/summaries/142.html

Al-Sulaiti, Latifa ; Abbas, Noorhan ; Brierley, Claire et al. / Compilation of an Arabic children’s corpus. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia. editor / Bente Maegaard ; Hélène Mazo ; Asunción Moreno ; Khalid Choukri ; Marko Grobelnik ; Joseph Mariani ; Nicoletta Calzolari ; Thierry Declerck ; Sara Goggi ; Jan Odijk ; Stelios Piperidis. Paris, France : European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2016. pp. 1808-1812

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Al-Sulaiti, L, Abbas, N, Brierley, C, Atwell, E & Alghamdi, A 2016, Compilation of an Arabic children’s corpus. in B Maegaard, H Mazo, A Moreno, K Choukri, M Grobelnik, J Mariani, N Calzolari, T Declerck, S Goggi, J Odijk & S Piperidis (eds), Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Paris, France, pp. 1808-1812. <http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/summaries/142.html>

Compilation of an Arabic children’s corpus. / Al-Sulaiti, Latifa; Abbas, Noorhan; Brierley, Claire et al.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia. ed. / Bente Maegaard; Hélène Mazo; Asunción Moreno; Khalid Choukri; Marko Grobelnik; Joseph Mariani; Nicoletta Calzolari; Thierry Declerck; Sara Goggi; Jan Odijk; Stelios Piperidis. Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2016. p. 1808-1812.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

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Al-Sulaiti L, Abbas N, Brierley C, Atwell E, Alghamdi A. Compilation of an Arabic children’s corpus. In Maegaard B, Mazo H, Moreno A, Choukri K, Grobelnik M, Mariani J, Calzolari N, Declerck T, Goggi S, Odijk J, Piperidis S, editors, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia. Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA). 2016. p. 1808-1812 Epub 2016.

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