Re: looking for arabic word list

[hassan boulmarouf <hboulmarouf at yahoo dot com>]

>If there
> are serious commitments
> from Mr. H.Boulmarouf and others that's a different
> story

I'd really love to help in arabic projects for linux,
but for the time being I am working on an arabic
version  of scrabble game.

--- Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- 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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