The Saudi Novel Corpus: Design and Compilation

Arabic has recently received significant attention from corpus compilers. This situation led to the creation of many corpora that cover various genres, most notably newswire genre. Yet, novels, and specifically those authored by Saudi writers, lack sufficient digital datasets would enhance linguistic stylistic studies these works. Thus, lags behind English other European languages in this context. In paper, we present Novels Corpus, built be a valuable resource for research communities. We procedures followed decisions made creating corpus. describe clarify design criteria, data collection methods, process annotation, encoding. addition, preliminary results emerged analysis content. consider work described paper as initial steps bridge existing gap between linguistics literary texts. Further is planned improve quality adding advanced features.