Papers by Latifa Alfalasi
A Leveled Reading Corpus of Modern Standard Arabic (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Using a reading corpus in Modern Standard Arabic, we explore the lexical coverage of textbooks and unabridged works of fiction. |
| Approach: | They propose to use textbooks from the United Arab Emirates curriculum and a reading corpus in Modern Standard Arabic to enrich the sparse collection of resources available for educational applications. |
| Outcome: | The corpus spans all 12 grades and contains 129 unabridged works of fiction spanning grades 1-12 . lexical coverage is compared to other genres, and the results show that the two sub-corpora are similar to each other to measure their genres. |