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Re: looking for arabic word list



On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:26:22AM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> > 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

The duali-data package includes the files generated by 'trans2arabic'.
So he can take it from there.

> 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

It should. A stem is not a root. ie. A stem is simply a word without a
prefix or suffix (like 'AL' for a prefix).

Regards
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