Re: looking for arabic word list

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:52:16AM -0700, hassan boulmarouf wrote:
> > 
> > And Buckwalter dictionary, is it easy to remove the
> > extra information it contains ?
> > 
> 
> Yes, with the help of a little scripting you can do anything ;) But
> 'easy' is a relative thing. It is a fairly simply process if that is
> what you are asking. Then again, you probably want to run it through
> 'trans2arabic' (which comes with Duali) first so it can be in readable
> format (utf-8 encoding), before doing anything with it.

M.Elzubeir, could you please generate this file once-n-for-all (it will
probably take you the least amount of time of all and would be much
easier than answering more mails about it :-).  I'm not sure that stems
will be sufficient either since it will not encompass all the words a
person looking to translate Arabic into English would find and/or inquire
about (not really sure what to do there in order to add more content to
the list beyond doing it by hand).  As far as I'm concerned this
"Arabic_wordlist" is rather low priority as we all need to focus on
Arabbix and getting it out the door AND distributed sooner rather than
later (Gitex is on our heals and we still need to find a means to find
the burn-in/creation of some 5,000 CDs).  If there are serious commitments
from Mr. H.Boulmarouf and others that's a different story (by commitment
I mean taking full control of this topic and baby sitting it until
completion).

Salam.

 - Nadim

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