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I'm developing an application to teach Quran. I need some textual/lingual analysis based on a common and general corpus.
I know about King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) Arabic corpus, yet I can't find a place to download it. The original website seems to be down.
Can anyone guide me to a general purpose Arabic Corpus that can be downloaded (free or paid)?
The most convienient way to search for corpora is the Virtual language Observatory (VLO), a service by the European CLARIN project. Enter "Arabic corpus" in the search slit and you'll get (at the moment of this answer writing) 1863 hits, among them the following:
corpus.kacst.edu.sa
Other useful corpus links can be found here: https://sites.google.com/a/aucegypt.edu/infoguistics/directory/Corpus-Linguistics/arabic-corpora
