Alrabiah, M, Al-Salman, A, Atwell, ES et al. (1 more author) (2014) KSUCCA: a key to exploring Arabic historical linguistics. International Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCL), 5 (2). 27 - 36. ISSN 2180-1266
Abstract
Classical Arabic forms the basis of Arabic linguistic theory and it is well understood by the educated Arabic reader. It is different in many ways from Modern Standard Arabic which is more simplified in its lexical, syntactic, morphological, phraseological and semantic structure. King Saud University Corpus of Classical Arabic is a pioneering corpus of around 50 million words of Classical Arabic. It is initially constructed for the purpose of studying distributional lexical semantics of the Quran and Classical Arabic, however, it is designed in a general way making it also appropriate for other researches in Linguistics and Computational Linguistics. In this paper, we will briefly describe the structure of our corpus, and then we will demonstrate how it can be used to depict some aspect of Arabic language change between the classical and the modern periods.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2014, Alrabiah, M, Al-Salman, A, Atwell, ES and Alhelewh, N. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and any derivative works are licensed under the same terms. |
Keywords: | Historical linguistics; corpus linguistics; classical Arabic; modern standard Arabic; lexical change; syntactic change; morphological change; phraseological change; semantic change |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Computing (Leeds) > Artificial Intelligence & Biological Systems (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2014 12:15 |
Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2018 21:02 |
Published Version: | http://www.cscjournals.org/library/manuscriptinfo.... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | CSC Journals |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:81836 |