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Re: A (too huge) Arabic word-list (with prefixes) for spell-checkers

Dan,
Thanks. The GUI, IMHO, will be usefull either way, as it can be used
as a normal dictionary by anyone, for learning pruposes. Electronic
dictionary has one big advantage over books: searching. Especially for
language like Arabic and Hebrew, typical case, if you would like to ue
a dictionary, you need to look up based on it's roots. If you are a
new to the language, then you will have no idea where to begin with.
Searching thru this list will be much easier as it will give you it's
root immediately, and possible some meaning of it.

Regards.

On 5/19/06, Dan Kenigsberg <danken at cs dot technion dot ac dot il> wrote: 
In my opinion, consulting a printed dictionary is perfectly legal, but IANAL.

You can download the 28Mb (compressed to 6Mb) generated list from
http://ivrix.org.il/projects/arabic/ooo-ar-0.1.zip . Note that it is in
iso8859-6, and that each word is annotated with a letter signifying its legal
prefixes.

Having a gui would be great. In fact, I created something similar for Hebrew
verbs. But it would be utterly useless without someone that cares for Arabic and
free software - to do the actual proofreading.

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:26:52AM +0800, Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote:
> Dan,
> Thanks for clarification. Just curious, how big is the file for the
> generated wordlist? I can't generate it yet because I'm working under
> XP, so I'm thinking if it is not that big, maybe I would like to
> download it instead.
> Anyway, I'm thinking, maybe it is a good idea to create a gui that
> will make it easier to go thru all the stem words and the generated
> word one by one for proofreading. It will show the stem word, the
> morphological and grammatical category applied to it, and the list of
> generated words. I think that would be easier to proofread. Or how
> about if someone compare it with Lane's Arabic lexicon (I don't have a
> copy of this)? Will it cause legal issues later? We are just
> comparing, not copying.
>
> Regards.

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Dan Kenigsberg        http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken        ICQ 162180901


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