سلام عليكم,

Any web resource that we can read on determining patterns of the root of the
arabic words?

2010/3/30 Kais Dukes <k...@kaisdukes.com>

> Salamu  Alaykum Fazlul Haque,
>
> To the best of my knowledge, our project is the first accurate
> annotated morphological work for the Quran by computer, so I would be
> surprised at an accurate unique word count from another secondary
> source. Although of course,  I could be wrong. The number of unique
> Arabic words in the Quran is not an easy question to answer. In Arabic
> the concept of a "word" can have multiple technical linguistic
> interpretations. Based on the existing annotation we have performed at
> the Quranic Arabic Corpus (http://corpus.quran.com), I can provide the
> following statistics:
>
> Total number of space-seperated words = 77,430
> Number of *unique* surface forms (i.e. space-separated word-forms,
> including clitics) = 18994
> Number of unique words by *stem* = 12183
> Number of unique words by *root* = 1685 (not necessarily a great
> metric for unique word counting, e.g. pronouns have no Semitic root)
> Number of unique words by *lemma* = 3382 (excluding verbs, and other
> words where lemma is not annotated).
> ...
>

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