Subject:Arabic Treebank Part 3 announced


LDC2004T11
*  Arabic Treebank: Part 3 v.1.0  *

The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the  availability of
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(2)  Arabic Treebank: Part 3 v 1.0 is the third part of a corpus of  1,000,000 words of Arabic Treebank, 
designed to support language  research and development of language technology for Modern Standard  Arabic.
  This corpus includes 600 stories from the An Nahar News  Agency. There are a total of 340,281 words 
(counting non-Arabic tokens  such as numbers and punctuation) in the 600 files - one story per file. 
 New features of annotation include complete vocalization (including  case endings), lemma IDs, and more
 specific POS tags for verbs and  particles.

 The corpus contains 293,035 Arabic-only word tokens (prior to the  separation of clitics), of which
 290,842 (99.25%) were provided with an  acceptable morphological analysis and POS tag by the morphological  
parser, and 2,193 (0.75%) were items that the morphological parser  failed to analyze correctly.  Arabic 
Treebank: Part 3 v 1.0 is  distributed on 1 CD.
 For further information, including online documentation, please visit:

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2004T11

 Institutions that have membership in the LDC for the 2004 Membership  Year will be able to receive this 
corpus free of charge.  Nonmembers  may license this data for US$3000.