Basma2423/Arabic-Terminologies-and-Definitions

Arabic Terminologies and Definitions Dataset

Dataset Details

Name: Arabic-Terminologies-and-Definitions
Description:
This dataset contains Arabic terminologies along with their corresponding definitions and examples. The terminologies can range from full words to single letters. Some entries include diacritics. The data was extracted from an XML file, focusing only on terminologies, definitions, and examples. The dataset initially contained 113,069 rows, but after removing rows without definitions, it now has 106,432 entries.

Columns:

• Terminology: A unique identifier for each sense, stripped of numbers and non-Arabic letters.
• Definition: The meaning of the terminology.
• Examples: One or more example sentences illustrating the terminology, separated by "|" if multiple.

Source

LMF Contemporary Arabic Dictionary

Licensing

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Use Cases

• Terminology generation tasks
• Providing contextual examples for NLP applications
• Arabic lexicography and language modeling research

Limitations

• The dataset is relatively small for training large language models.
• Some terminologies are single letters, but they do carry meaning.
• The Definition column may contain punctuation and numbers.

Citation

@misc{11372/LRT-1944,
  title = {{LMF} Contemporary Arabic dictionary},
  author = {Namly, Driss},
  url = {http://hdl.handle.net/11372/LRT-1944},
  note = {{LINDAT}/{CLARIAH}-{CZ} digital library at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics ({{'U}FAL}), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University},
  copyright = {Creative Commons - Attribution-{NonCommercial} 4.0 International ({CC} {BY}-{NC} 4.0)},
  year = {2015}
}