Arabic Commentary

[Nouar Aldahoul]

Salam, everyone.

We are looking for Arabic commentary data for previous FIFA World Cup matches (2022, 2018, 2014, 2010, 2006, 2002). Please let us know if anyone knows how we can get them. We are open to both free and paid options.

thanks in advance

Regards, 

Nouar

[MD.RAFIUL BISWAS]

Dear Nouar,

I have Twitter/X dataset on FIFA 2022 collected during the event. There is also a pre-event (FIFA 2022) dataset. 

However, the dataset is raw and searched  with only keywords FIFA. 

Let me know if this dataset can help you. 

 

Best Regards

Md. Rafiul Biswas

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[El-Haj, Mo]

Hi Nouar,

It might be difficult to acquire such data given the strict broadcast copyright restrictions.. but there is no harm in contacting Al Jazeera / beIN Sports directly, as they have held the MENA rights to FIFA World Cups since 2002, I guese..

Yallashoot also has a HuggingFace dataset of Arabic football commentary. It is not World Cup-specific, but it could still work for a study on language use,  etc.

There is also the FIFA World Cup 1930–2022 dataset, which contains information about teams, players, tournaments , results... It could provide useful context if you manage to link it to the Yallashoot commentary.

We have previously used similar football datasets when supporting Burnley Football Club in the UK, where the data helped inform player recruitment and transfer-related decisions.

Best of luck with your research

Mo

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Dr Mo El-Haj

Director of NLP @ VinUniversity 

Reader (Associate Professor) in NLP

CECS, VinUniversity, Vietnam 

SCC, Lancaster University, UK

https://elhaj.uk 

https://vinnlp.com 

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