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2022
Journal article
Islamic Manuscripts from Aceh in the British Library
Aceh has long been renowned as a centre of Islamic scholarship, and some of the most famous Malay texts were composed in this area of north Sumatra. However, despite an abundance of philological and literary studies of texts from Aceh, little attention has yet been paid to the materiality of...Acehnese, Aceh, manuscripts, binding, Malay, Arabic, illumination, and Southeast Asia
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2018
Conference paper (published)
Arabic dialect identification in the context of bivalency and code-switching
In this paper we use a novel approach towards Arabic dialect identification using language bivalency and written code-switching. Bivalency between languages or dialects is where a word or element is treated by language users as having a fundamentally similar semantic content in more than one language or dialect. Arabic dialect...El-Haj, Mahmoud ; Rayson, Paul ; Aboelezz, Mariam
Arabic, machine learning, dialects, language identification, NLP, and bivalency
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2018
3D image
Menak, Add MS 12309
Menak, Javanese manuscript containing stories of Amir Hamza, uncle of the Prophet Muhammad, written in Javanese in Arabic script, written between 1792 and 1812. 1,450 folios of Javanese paper. http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=IAMS040-002042067&indx=1&recIds=IAMS040-002042067&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=0&frbg=&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BL%29&tab=local&dstmp=1526286592148&srt=rank&mode=Basic&&dum=true&vl(freeText0)=menak&vid=IAMS_VU2British Library
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2020
Dataset
al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī (Add MS 23494)
This dataset is a PDF file containing the images and transcription the manuscript titled al-Durr al-naqī fī fann al-mūsīqī الدرّ النقيّ في فنّ الموسيقي by Aḥmad ibn 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Mawṣilī أحمد بن عبد الرحمن الموصلي. The manuscript was digitised through the British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership, and made available through...British Library ; Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
transcription, Arabic, and OCR
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2019
Dataset
Ground Truth transcriptions for training OCR of historical Arabic handwritten texts
This dataset comprises 120 digitised images (TIFF files) drawn from a selection of historical Arabic scientific manuscripts (10th-19th century) digitised through the British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership. Also contained are ground truth transcriptions (XML) for each page that can be used for training optical character recognition (OCR) or handwritten text...British Library ; Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi
Arabic, transcription, and OCR
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2017
Dataset
AAS Card Catalogues: Arabic
This dataset contains digitised cards from the Arabic card catalogue.British Library