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SPIRAL: SPellIng eRror Parallel Corpus for Arabic Language

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Intelligent Systems and Pattern Recognition (ISPR 2022)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 1589))

Abstract

Linguistic resources (corpus) have become a fundamental component in natural language processing over the last two decades, due to the role they play both in the testing and evaluation phase and in the development phase with the emergence of statistical and machine learning approaches. However, the development of such resources requires considerable time and effort.

In this paper, we present the steps to build our parallel corpus SPIRAL, which will be a useful resource for research in the field of spelling error detection and correction in Arabic texts. SPIRAL is the result of a study dedicated to the universe of spelling errors, where we exploited the different taxonomies dedicated to spelling error in Arabic texts, to generate automatically more than 248 million possible erroneous words from 420,000 correctly spelled words.

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  1. 1.

    Download SPIRAL: https://mega.nz/file/sa50BaKL#i9qjD52tt-QzLiKWM-rOQ9XrC1anyOwSOJ_kpzutN7M.

  2. 2.

    Tools: Ghalatawi (http://ghalatawi.sourceforge.net/index.php?content=english), Arabic Spell checker (http://arabicspellchecker.com/), AyaSpell (http://ayaspell.sourceforge.net/).

  3. 3.

    https://www.alriyadh.com/.

  4. 4.

    https://www.okaz.com.sa/.

  5. 5.

    https://www.bbc.com/arabic.

  6. 6.

    https://learning.aljazeera.net/en/generallanguage/level/beginner.

  7. 7.

    https://al-maktaba.org/.

  8. 8.

    https://farasa.qcri.org/.

  9. 9.

    Same observation for the prefixes:

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  1. Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Ahmed Draia University, Adrar, Algeria

    Shaimaa Ben Aichaoui, Nawel Hiri & Mohamd Amine Cheragui

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  1. Larbi Tebessi University, Tebessa, Algeria

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  2. Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, AR, USA

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  3. Digital Research Centre of Sfax, Sakiet Ezzit, Tunisia

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Aichaoui, S.B., Hiri, N., Cheragui, M.A. (2022). SPIRAL: SPellIng eRror Parallel Corpus for Arabic Language. In: Bennour, A., Ensari, T., Kessentini, Y., Eom, S. (eds) Intelligent Systems and Pattern Recognition. ISPR 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1589. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08277-1_21

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