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by ztravis 2877 days ago
This is an interesting project, although as others have mentioned the space of arabic words is (reasonably) bounded and an explicit parsing approach or something that uses known language data might prove to be more efficient and accurate.

Along those lines, I might be able to provide some useful json (the basis for http://www.arabicreference.com) in case you are interested. I've been meaning to do some fun investigations using this data (e.g. predicting broken plurals, masadir, form I internal vowelling) but haven't yet had time.

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Wow, really nice app! I love the simple-yet-highly-responsive interface. I'm definitely going to be sharing this around to my translator friends. Just curious, are you a translator?