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Natural language processing is showing more interest in the Amazigh language in recent years. Suitable resources for Amazighe are becoming a vital necessity for the progress of this research. Corpora are an important resource but Amazighe lacks sufficient resources in this field, therefore we have been conducted to build an Amazighe corpus. In this paper, we present preliminary result experiments with a corpus for Standard Amazighe. We selected samples of published data from different Amazighe varieties. The selection was driven mainly by the amount of data available. We still demonstrate the completeness and representativeness of this corpus using metrics and show its suitability for language engineering experiments.
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Boulaknadel, S., Ataa Allah, F. (2013). Building a Standard Amazigh Corpus. In: Kudělka, M., Pokorný, J., Snášel, V., Abraham, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2011), Prague, Czech Republic, August, 2011. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31603-6_8
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