OSAC: Open Source Arabic Corpora
Motaz Saad, Wesam M. Ashour · 2010
Abstract—Arabic Linguistics is promising research field. The acute lack of free public accessible Arabic corpora is one of the major difficulties that Arabic linguistics researches face. The effort of this paper is a step towards supporting Arabic linguistics research field. This paper presents the complex nature of Arabic language, pose the problems of: (1) lacking free public Arabic corpora, (2) the lack of high-quality, well-structured Arabic digital contents. The paper finally presents OSAC, the largest free accessible that we collected.