Re: looking for arabic word list

[hassan boulmarouf <hboulmarouf at yahoo dot com>]

And where can I get the arabic wordlist generated by
gendic script ? 

And Buckwalter dictionary, is it easy to remove the
extra information it contains ?

Thank you in advance

--- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 09:34:28AM -0700, Nadim
> Shaikli wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think one exists.  We don't have an Arabic
> word
> > list (yet :-) -- we have an english word list
> under the
> > auspices of the wordlist project.
> > 
> > I think the only way you can get an Arabic
> wordlist
> > (since I'm 99.9% sure you won't find one on the
> 'net) is to
> > create your own.  Look into a systematic means to
> generate
> > it possibly via a "Morphological Analysis" tool
> (look into
> > the Duali project).
> > 
> > M.Elzubeir, in passing, I will hit you up with
> 'generating
> > a complete Arabic Wordlist' later once you get
> freed-up ;-)
> > 
> 
> 
> The Buckwalter dictionary is essentially an Arabic
> wordlist. That is, if
> you are looking for them in their stem form. That is
> the same dictionary
> (wordlist) that Duali currently uses. 
> 
> I think the gendic script (not sure how useable it
> is right now)
> generated a pure Arabic wordlist out of the
> 'Wordlist Project' wordlist
> (that's too many 'wordlist' words in there, sorry
> for the confusion).
> 
> However, even the Buckwalter dictionary is filled
> with a lot of extra
> information that may not make it easy for you to
> navigate through. It is
> also transliterated (in Latin characters, rather
> than Arabic). You can
> use the 'trans2arabic' script supplied with 'duali'
> to generate UTF-8
> encoded versions of the Buckwalter transliterated
> wordlist.
> 
> Let me know if any of this makes sense (or doesn't)
> ;)
> 
> Regards
> -- 
>
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