Arabic Treebank - Broadcast News v1.0
| Item Name: | Arabic Treebank - Broadcast News v1.0 |
| Author(s): | Mohamed Maamouri, Ann Bies, Seth Kulick, Sondos Krouna, Dalila Tabassi, Michael Ciul |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2012T07 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-615-0 |
| ISLRN: | 009-748-438-749-7 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/633t-z038 |
| Release Date: | July 18, 2012 |
| Member Year(s): | 2012 |
| DCMI Type(s): | Text |
| Data Source(s): | broadcast news |
| Project(s): | GALE |
| Application(s): | cross-lingual information retrieval, automatic content extraction, information detection |
| Language(s): | Standard Arabic, Arabic |
| Language ID(s): | arb, ara |
| License(s): |
LDC User Agreement for Non-Members |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2012T07 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Maamouri, Mohamed, et al. Arabic Treebank - Broadcast News v1.0 LDC2012T07. Web Download. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2012. |
| Related Works: | View |
Introduction
Arabic Treebank - Broadcast News v1.0 was developed at the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). It consists of 120 transcribed Arabic broadcast news stories with part-of-speech, morphology, gloss and syntactic tree annotation.
The ongoing PATB project supports research in Arabic-language natural language processing and human language technology development. The methodology and work leading to the release of this publication are described in detail in the documentation accompanying this corpus.
Data
This release contains 432,976 source tokens before clitics were split, and 517,080 tree tokens after clitics were separated for treebank annotation. The source materials are Arabic broadcast news stories collected by LDC during the period 2005-2008 from the following sources: Abu Dhabi TV, Al Alam News Channel, Al Arabiya, Al Baghdadya TV, Al Fayha, Alhurra, Al Iraqiyah, Aljazeera, Al Ordiniyah, Al Sharqiyah, Dubai TV, Kuwait TV, Lebanese Broadcasting Corp., Oman TV, Radio Sawa, Saudi TV and Syria TV. The transcripts were produced by LDC.
Samples
Please follow this link for a sample from this corpus.
Sponsorship
This work was supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, GALE Program Grant No. HR0011-06-1-0003. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred.
Updates
None at this time.