Friday, August 27th, 2004


Snowball: A language for stemming algorithms, describes an abstraction that can be used to generate code in various programming languages. Generalises the approach taken in the ‘Porter stemming’ algorithm.

“The New Way” Arabic reader 1938.

“A direct sound-method for learning to read the Arabic language for beginners.”
An Arabic language reader for elementary scholl second grade. Printed in Sidon in 1938.
This book was donated by Christian Awaraji in Beirut, the summer of 1997. It belonged to his aunt who used it as a school textbook in 1944.

Scans of the book, complete with illustrations. Text is Arabic script (with vowels written).