I am looking for an Arabic ngram corpus?

Question

I am working in a project where i need to use an ngram model. So, i want to know if an Arabic ngram corpus exist. I have tried to find a corpus but all my researches failed. I know that for languages like English there exist such a corpus (Google ngram corpus for instance but i want an arabic corpus). Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Google N-gram Viewer is a graphing tool that charts time-based data to show the frequency of usage of words or phrases. The tool is based on a large dataset from books collected by Google from open sources. Although Arabic is the fifth spoken language in the world with speakers more than French, German, Russian and Italian languages, unfortunately, Arabic language is not included as one of the corpora indexed by the Google n-gram viewer. This paper illustrates the possibility of building a big Arabic corpus and indexing it to be included in Google N-gram viewer. A case study is presented to build a dataset to initiate the process of digitizing the Arabic content and prepare it to be incorporated in Google N-gram viewer. One of the major goals of including Arabic content in Google N-gram is to enrich Arabic public content which has been very limited in comparison with the size of Arabic speakers. We believe that adopting Arabic language by Google N-gram viewer can significantly benefit researchers in different fields related to Arabic language and its speakers’ history.