The Arabic E-Book Corpus is a freely available collection of 1,745 books (81.5 million words) published in by the Hindawi foundation between 2008 and 2024. The books are of various genres, including non-fiction, novels, children's literature, poetry, and plays. The corpus is provided in two versions: html and unformatted plain text. The latter version will be appropriate for most purposes.

Data contains personal data

Yes

Type of personal data

The data container names of copyright holders, such as authors and translators, as well as historical, political, and other public figures mentioned in the works.

Language

Arabic

Method and outcome

Time period(s) investigated

2008 – 2024

Data format / data structure

Text

Data collection

Language resources

Resource type

Corpus

Foreseen use

NLP application, Human use

Text corpus

Linguality
Monolingual
Language
- Arabic (ara)
Modality
Written Language
Size

Words: 80.5 million

Files: 1,745
Original source
http://www.hindawi.org
Link to other media

Text: https://www.hindawi.org

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: North Africa, The Middle East

Administrative information

Responsible department/unit

Department of Languages and Literatures

Topic and keywords

Research area

Language technology (computational linguistics) (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Specific languages (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Keywords

Corpus linguistics, Corpus-based research, Arabic language, Arabic alphabet

Publications

Accessibility level

Access to data through SND
Data are freely accessible

Use of data

Things to consider when using data shared through SND

License

CC BY 4.0

Versions

Version 1. 2024-12-11

Version 1: 2024-12-11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/7rbh-gy93

Contact for questions about the data

Andreas Hallberg

andreas.hallberg@sprak.gu.se

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Compiles Hindawi

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