I am also looking for such a resource :-)
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:07 PM, johan zahri <johan.i.za...@gmail.com> wrote:
> سلام عليكم,
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> Any web resource that we can read on determining patterns of the root of the
> arabic words?
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> 2010/3/30 Kais Dukes <k...@kaisdukes.com>
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>> Salamu Alaykum Fazlul Haque,
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>> To the best of my knowledge, our project is the first accurate
>> annotated morphological work for the Quran by computer, so I would be
>> surprised at an accurate unique word count from another secondary
>> source. Although of course, I could be wrong. The number of unique
>> Arabic words in the Quran is not an easy question to answer. In Arabic
>> the concept of a "word" can have multiple technical linguistic
>> interpretations. Based on the existing annotation we have performed at
>> the Quranic Arabic Corpus (http://corpus.quran.com), I can provide the
>> following statistics:
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>> Total number of space-seperated words = 77,430
>> Number of *unique* surface forms (i.e. space-separated word-forms,
>> including clitics) = 18994
>> Number of unique words by *stem* = 12183
>> Number of unique words by *root* = 1685 (not necessarily a great
>> metric for unique word counting, e.g. pronouns have no Semitic root)
>> Number of unique words by *lemma* = 3382 (excluding verbs, and other
>> words where lemma is not annotated).
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