Using AWP with Arabic texts

[Alex Strick van Linschoten]

I've newly discovered this tool thanks to a video I watched yesterday. I'm interested in getting an accurate profile of Arabic-language texts and their difficulty levels, but I'm not sure if there are any word profiles available for Arabic. 

Has anyone using this forum / programme had any experience of making Arabic frequency profiles?

Thanks,

Alex

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Alex,

If you have a general Arabic corpus, you can use AntConc (or another more Arabic-oriented) corpus tool to create a frequency list from it.

Then, if you split the results into frequency bands (saving your data in the UTF-8 encoding), you can then load these into AntWordProfiler as separate frequency lists and it should work fine.

I suggest you try it out by making a set of three very simple level lists and testing the program. For English, it would be something like:

the

of

a

cat

dog

mouse

big

fat

tall

And then, you can load a test file like below:

the fat cat sat on the big mat

I hope that helps.

Laurence.

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[Alex Strick van Linschoten]

Thank you for this suggestion. I will see if I can find an Arabic corpus to work with.

Alex

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[Laurence Anthony]

You're welcome!

Laurence.

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