Build Electronic Arabic Lexicon

Nidhal El-Abbadi, Ahmed Khdhair, and Adel Al-Nasrawi
University of Kufa, Iraq

Abstract: There are many known Arabic lexicons organized on different ways, each of them has a different number of Arabic words according to its organization way. This paper has used mathematical relations to count a number of Arabic words, which proofs the number of Arabic words presented by Al Farahidy. The paper also presents new way to build an electronic Arabic lexicon by using a hash function that converts each word (as input) to correspond a unique integer number (as output), these integer numbers will be used as an index to a lexicon entry.