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# The Arabic E-Book Corpus


## Alternative Title
مدونة لغوية للكتب العربية الإلكترونية

## Description
#### عربي
مدونة الكتب العربية الإلكترونية هي مجموعة بيانات متاحة مجانًا تضم 1,745 كتابًا (81.5 مليون كلمة) نُشرت بواسطة مؤسسة هنداوي بين عامي 2008 و2024. تشمل الكتب أنواعًا مختلفة، بما في ذلك الكتب غير الروائية، الروايات، أدب الأطفال، الشعر، والمسرحيات.

#### English
The Arabic E-Book Corpus is a freely available collection of 1,745 books (81.5 million words) published by the Hindawi foundation between 2008 and 2024. The books are of various genres, including non-fiction, novels, children's literature, poetry, and plays.

The dataset was originally published at [SND](https://snd.se/en/catalogue/dataset/preview/eed46fe0-dfeb-442b-8a71-74d952e006c2/1) and was added to Hugging Face by [Mohammad Fares](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohres/).

## Language
Arabic

## Columns Description

> (* = Only applicable to translated works. Empty string in non-translated works.)
> 
- `booknr`: An eight-digit unique number assigned by the publisher, corresponding to the file name of the book.
- `cateogy`: Category as assigned by the publisher. 213 books in the corpus have two or three labels, in which case they are given as a comma separated list. There are 25 possible values:

  > ```
  > arts                    novels           
  > biographies             philosophy       
  > business                plays            
  > children.stories        poetry           
  > detective.fiction       politics         
  > economics               psychology       
  > environmental.sciences  religions        
  > geography               science          
  > health                  science.fiction  
  > history                 social.sciences  
  > linguistics             technology       
  > literary.criticism      travel.literature
  > literature
  > ```

- `title`: The Arabic title of the book.
- `author` (string): The Author in Arabic script.
- `pubdate`: Publication date in the (yyyy-mm-dd)
- `origtitle`\*: The title of the original work.
- `origauthor`\*: The name of the author in the original language from translated books.
- `wc`: Word count.
- `origpubdate`: Date of the original publication. (yyyy)
- `origlang.ar`: Arabic name of original language.
- `transdate`\*: Translation date (yyyy), provided for re-publications of existing translations.
- `translation` (`TRUE`/`FALSE`): Specifies whether the book is a translation from another language.
- `origpubdate.full` (string): Similar as above but with some books specified with
- `origlang`: English name of original language.
- `category.main`: Similar to `category`, but for books with two or three category labels, the second and third are omitted, giving one category label for each book.
  - `yyyy-yyyy` (date range). Represented in `orgpubdate` by the first year in the rage.
  - `unkn`: Publication date stated in the work to be unknown. Represented in `orgpubdate` by `NA`.
  - `mult`: Stated in the work to be originally published on multiple (unspecified) dates. Represented in `orgpubdate` by `NA`.
- `text`: The full text of the book.


## Citation
Hallberg, A. (2024). The Arabic E-Book Corpus (Version 1) [Data set]. University of Gothenburg.
 DOI: Available after publication.