Arabic Corpora

Khaleej-2004 corpus
I have prepared this corpus for realizing experiments on Topic Identification for Arabic language. It has been extracted from thousands of articles which had been downloaded from an online newspaper.

The corpus contains more than 5000 articles which correspond to nearly 3 millions words.

Punctuation has been deleted on purpose. For more information, see the works based on Khaleej corpus:

M. Abbas, K. Smaili. Comparison of Topic Identification Methods forArabic Language, International conference RANLP05 : Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing , 21-23 september 2005, Borovets, Bulgary. [pdf]

M. Abbas, D. Berkani. Topic Identification by Statistical Methods for Arabic language. Wseas Transactions on Computers", Issue 9. Volume 5. pp. 1908-1913. 2006. [pdf]

Download: The two corpora can be downloaded from the link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/arabiccorpus/files/

Topic	Corpus Size (Number of documents)
International News	953
Local News	2398
Economy	909
Sports	1430
Total number of docs	5690

Watan-2004 corpus

Watan-2004 corpus contains about 20000 articles talking about the six following topics "categories":
Culture, Religion, Economy, Local News, International News and sports.
In this corpus, punctuation has been omitted intentionally in order to make it useful for Language Modeling. My works based on Watan corpus can be found out in the link Publications.

Topic	Corpus Size (Number of documents)
Culture	2782
Religion	3860
Economy	3468
Local News	3596
International News	2035
Sports	4550
Total number of docs	20291

N.B: This corpus is only for scientific use.