Name: OSAC
Description: collecting the largest free
  accessible Arabic corpus, OSAC, which contains about
  18M words and about 0.5M district keywords.
Provider: Islamic University of Gaza
Paper Title: OSAC: Open Source Arabic Corpora
  
Tasks: topic classification
Venue Name: nan
Authors: Motaz Saad,W. Ashour
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, wellstructured Arabic digital contents. The paper finally presents OSAC, the largest free accessible that we collected.