Arabic Corpus
Text categorization, arabic language processing, language modeling
The Arabic Corpus {compiled by Dr. Mourad Abbas ( http://sites.google.com/site/mouradabbas9/corpora ) The corpus Khaleej-2004 contains 5690 documents. It is divided to 4 topics (categories). The corpus Watan-2004 contains 20291 documents organized in 6 topics (categories). Researchers who use these two corpora would mention the two main references:
(1) For Watan-2004 corpus
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M. Abbas, K. Smaili, D. Berkani, (2011) Evaluation of Topic Identification Methods on Arabic Corpora,JOURNAL OF DIGITAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT,vol. 9, N. 5, pp.185-192.
2) For Khaleej-2004 corpus
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M. Abbas, K. Smaili (2005) Comparison of Topic Identification Methods for Arabic Language, RANLP05 : Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing ,pp. 14-17, 21-23 september 2005, Borovets, Bulgary.
More useful references to check:
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https://sites.google.com/site/mouradabbas9/corpora