Arabic Trends: a daily-updated monitor corpus of news articles

The Arabic Trends corpus is an Arabic monitor corpus made up of news articles or other sources that are regularly updated from their RSS feeds (newsfeeds). The Arabic trends corpus is updated daily with new texts and grows by about 1–2 million words each day. These regular updates enable you to use the diachronic analysis tool and study word usage changes.

Part-of-speech tagset

The Arabic Trends corpus is tagged by the CAMeL tool using the POS CAMeL tagset.

Tools to work with the Arabic Trends corpus

A complete set of tools is available to work with this Arabic Trends corpus from news to generate:

  • word sketch – Arabic collocations categorized by grammatical relations
  • thesaurus – synonyms and similar words for every word
  • keywords – terminology extraction of one-word units
  • word lists – lists of Arabic nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. organized by frequency
  • n-grams – frequency list of multi-word units
  • concordance – examples in context
  • trends – diachronic analysis automatically identifies neologisms and changes in use
  • text type analysis – statistics of metadata in the corpus

TenTen corpora

Jakubíček, M., Kilgarriff, A., Kovář, V., Rychlý, P., & Suchomel, V. (2013, July). The TenTen corpus family. In 7th International Corpus Linguistics Conference CL (pp. 125-127).

Suchomel, V., & Pomikálek, J. (2012). Efficient web crawling for large text corpora. In Proceedings of the seventh Web as Corpus Workshop (WAC7) (pp. 39-43).

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