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Languages:
Arabic
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language_creators:
- found
languages:
- ar
licenses:
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multilinguality:
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size_categories:
  Alittihad:
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  Almasryalyoum:
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  Almustaqbal:
  - 10K<n<100K
  Alqabas:
  - 10K<n<100K
  Echoroukonline:
  - 10K<n<100K
  Ryiadh:
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  Sabanews:
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  SaudiYoum:
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  Techreen:
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  Youm7:
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source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- sequence-modeling
task_ids:
- language-modeling
---

# Dataset Card for Arabic Billion Words Corpus

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-instances)
  - [Data Splits](#data-instances)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** http://www.abuelkhair.net/index.php/en/arabic/abu-el-khair-corpus
- **Repository:**
- **Paper:** https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.04033
- **Leaderboard:**
- **Point of Contact:**[Ibrahim Abu El-Khair](iabuelkhair@gmail.com)

### Dataset Summary

Abu El-Khair Corpus is an Arabic text corpus, that includes more than five million newspaper articles.
It contains over a billion and a half words in total, out of which, there are about three million unique words.
The corpus is encoded with two types of encoding, namely: UTF-8, and Windows CP-1256.
Also it was marked with two mark-up languages, namely: SGML, and XML.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed]

### Languages

Arabic

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

[More Information Needed]

### Data Fields

The data fields are:
- "url": string, original url of the article,
- "head_line": string, headline of the article,
- "date": string, date of the article,
- "text": string, text content of the article,

### Data Splits

[More Information Needed]

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed]

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed]

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed]

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed]

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed]

### Licensing Information

[More Information Needed]

### Citation Information

```
@article{el20161,
  title={1.5 billion words arabic corpus},
  author={El-Khair, Ibrahim Abu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.04033},
  year={2016}
}
```

### Contributions

Thanks to [@zaidalyafeai](https://github.com/zaidalyafeai) for adding this dataset.