Dataset Card for Arabic Billion Words Corpus

Table of Contents

• Dataset Description
  • Dataset Summary
  • Supported Tasks
  • Languages
• Dataset Structure
  • Data Instances
  • Data Fields
  • Data Splits
• Dataset Creation
  • Curation Rationale
  • Source Data
  • Annotations
  • Personal and Sensitive Information
• Considerations for Using the Data
  • Social Impact of Dataset
  • Discussion of Biases
  • Other Known Limitations
• Additional Information
  • Dataset Curators
  • Licensing Information
  • Citation Information

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

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

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Languages

Arabic

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

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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

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Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

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Citation Information

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