Resources for Arabic

Morphology

Free software

• AraMorph - Perl - An Arabic morphological analyzer and part-of-speech tagger written in Perl (originally by Tim Buckwalter)
• AraMorph - Java - An Arabic morphological analyzer and part-of-speech tagger rewritten in Java for Lucene

Proprietary

• Xerox Arabic Morphological Analyzer and Generator

Corpora

Proprietary

• Arabic Newswire Part 1

Free/open licence

• Meedan-Memory, Arabic-English TMX (sentence-aligned), ~467,000 words on the English side, Open Database Licence
• Quranic Arabic Corpus, 77,430 words of Quranic Arabic, with manually verified contextual POS, inflection, derivation; dependency grammar annotation is planned.

Parser

Free software

• Arabic dictionaries, by Jon Dehdari, for the Link-Grammar parser. These require the Aramorph stemming package, above.

External links

• ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop on Arabic NLP
• Basic Arabic Processing Tools
• COLING 2004 Workshop on computational approaches to Arabic script-based languages