Work

A Leveled Reading Corpus of Modern Standard Arabic

Year: 2018

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We present a reading corpus in Modern Standard Arabic to enrich the sparse collection of resources that can be leveraged for educational applications.The corpus consists of textbook material from the curriculum of the United Arab Emirates, spanning all 12 grades (1.4 million tokens) and a collection of 129 unabridged works of fiction (5.6 million tokens) all annotated with reading levels from Grade 1 to Post-secondary.We examine reading progression in terms of lexical coverage, and compare the two sub-corpora (curricular, fiction) to others from clearly established genres (news, legal/diplomatic) to measure representation of their respective genres.

Source: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)

DOI: 10.63317/2vxe57mwjr49

Authors: Muhamed Al Khalil, Hind Saddiki, Nizar Habash, Latifa Alfalasi

Institutions: New York University Abu Dhabi, New York University, Mohammed V University, Ministry of Education

Language: English

Topic: Arabic Language Education Studies

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, New York University Abu Dhabi, York University