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title = "A Large and Balanced Multi-Domain {A}rabic Corpus Annotated for Morphology, Syntax, and Readability",
author = "Elmadani, Khalid N. and
Mahmoud Wizani, Adel and
Taha Thomure, Hanada and
Habash, Nizar",
editor = "Piperidis, Stelios and
Bel, N{\'u}ria and
van den Heuvel, Henk and
Ide, Nancy and
Krek, Simon and
Toral, Antonio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.921/",
doi = "10.63317/45f2o6t8piyi",
pages = "11761--11775",
abstract = "We present BAREC-10M, an expanded version of the Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC). This new release extends the original 1M-word corpus to 10 million words and broadens its scope to include balanced multi-domain coverage annotated for morphology, syntax, and readability. The corpus integrates 45 sub-corpora drawn from diverse sources, including news, educational materials, literature, children{'}s texts, and religious discourse. Each text is labeled for domain, readership level, and genre, and automatically analyzed using state-of-the-art morphological and syntactic tools. To enhance coverage of underrepresented varieties, we manually digitized and included children{'}s materials, magazines, and curriculum-based content. The resulting dataset provides a balanced resource for studying Arabic linguistic variation across styles, audiences, and levels of complexity."
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%T A Large and Balanced Multi-Domain Arabic Corpus Annotated for Morphology, Syntax, and Readability
%A Elmadani, Khalid N.
%A Mahmoud Wizani, Adel
%A Taha Thomure, Hanada
%A Habash, Nizar
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
%S Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
%F elmadani-etal-2026-large
%X We present BAREC-10M, an expanded version of the Balanced Arabic Readability Evaluation Corpus (BAREC). This new release extends the original 1M-word corpus to 10 million words and broadens its scope to include balanced multi-domain coverage annotated for morphology, syntax, and readability. The corpus integrates 45 sub-corpora drawn from diverse sources, including news, educational materials, literature, children’s texts, and religious discourse. Each text is labeled for domain, readership level, and genre, and automatically analyzed using state-of-the-art morphological and syntactic tools. To enhance coverage of underrepresented varieties, we manually digitized and included children’s materials, magazines, and curriculum-based content. The resulting dataset provides a balanced resource for studying Arabic linguistic variation across styles, audiences, and levels of complexity.
%R 10.63317/45f2o6t8piyi
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.921/
%U https://doi.org/10.63317/45f2o6t8piyi
%P 11761-11775
Markdown (Informal)
[A Large and Balanced Multi-Domain Arabic Corpus Annotated for Morphology, Syntax, and Readability](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.921/) (Elmadani et al., LREC 2026)
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