Musaheb

“Musaheb”, an Arabic collocation extraction tool that has been designed and implemented to overcome the limitations of existing collocation extraction tools. “Musaheb” is able to extract n-gram collocations up to 5-gram, in addition to extracting the collocates of the nodes (the word-types we are looking for its collocates) within a window size of zero to 15 words. Moreover, it provides eight collocation statistics to calculate the strength of the collocation, and permits the input of various constraints during node selection and collocate extraction. Based on the user preferences for the node, concordance and collocates selection, the tool saves all nodes and their associated collocates in an XML file; allowing easy conversion to different formats.