@InProceedings{alkhalil-habash-jiang:2020:LREC,
  author    = {Al Khalil, Muhamed  and  Habash, Nizar  and  Jiang, Zhengyang},
  title     = {A Large-Scale Leveled Readability Lexicon for Standard Arabic},
  booktitle      = {Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
  month          = {May},
  year           = {2020},
  address        = {Marseille, France},
  publisher      = {European Language Resources Association},
  pages     = {3053--3062},
  abstract  = {We present a large-scale 26,000-lemma leveled readability lexicon for Modern Standard Arabic. The lexicon was manually annotated in triplicate by language professionals from three regions in the Arab world. The annotations show a high degree of agreement; and major differences were limited to regional variations. Comparing lemma readability levels with their frequencies provided good insights in the benefits and pitfalls of frequency-based readability approaches. The lexicon will be publicly available.},
  url       = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.373}
}