Critical Survey of the Freely Available Arabic Corpora

Understand

The availability of corpora is a major factor in building natural language processing applications.

• However, the costs of acquiring corpora can prevent some researchers from going further in their endeavours.
• The ease of access to freely available corpora is urgent needed in the NLP research community especially for language such as Arabic.
• Currently, there is not easy was to access to a comprehensive and updated list of freely available Arabic corpora.