Name: arabic billion words
Description: includes more than five million newspaper articles
Provider: Multiple institutions
Paper Title: 1.5 billion words Arabic Corpus
  
Tasks: text generation, language modeling
Venue Name: ArXiv
Authors: I. A. El-Khair
Abstract: This study is an attempt to build a contemporary linguistic corpus for Arabic language. The corpus produced, is a text corpus includes more than five million newspaper articles. It contains over a billion and a half words in total, out of which, there is about three million unique words. The data were collected from newspaper articles in ten major news sources from eight Arabic countries, over a period of fourteen years. The corpus was 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.