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Building a Standard Amazigh Corpus

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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2011), Prague, Czech Republic, August, 2011

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 179))

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Natural language processing is showing more interest in the Amazigh language in recent years. Suitable resources for Amazighe are becoming a vital necessity for the progress of this research. Corpora are an important resource but Amazighe lacks sufficient resources in this field, therefore we have been conducted to build an Amazighe corpus. In this paper, we present preliminary result experiments with a corpus for Standard Amazighe. We selected samples of published data from different Amazighe varieties. The selection was driven mainly by the amount of data available. We still demonstrate the completeness and representativeness of this corpus using metrics and show its suitability for language engineering experiments.

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  1. Institut Royal de la Culture Amazighe, Avenue Allal El Fassi Madinat Al Irfane, Rabat, Morocco

    Siham Boulaknadel & Fadoua Ataa Allah

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  1. Siham Boulaknadel
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Correspondence to Siham Boulaknadel .

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  1. , Faculty of Electrical Engineering and, Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15, Ostrava-Poruba, 708 33, Czech Republic

    Miloš Kudělka

  2. , Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Malostranske nam. 25, Praha, 118 00, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Pokorný

  3. , Faculty of Electrical Engineering and, Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15, Ostrava-Poruba, 708 33, Czech Republic

    Václav Snášel

  4. Auburn, 98071, USA

    Ajith Abraham

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Boulaknadel, S., Ataa Allah, F. (2013). Building a Standard Amazigh Corpus. In: Kudělka, M., Pokorný, J., Snášel, V., Abraham, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2011), Prague, Czech Republic, August, 2011. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31603-6_8

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