We present the SAMER Corpus, the first manually annotated Arabic parallel
corpus for text simplification targeting school-aged learners. Our corpus
comprises texts of 159K words selected from 15 publicly available Arabic
fiction novels most of which were published between 1865 and 1955. Our corpus
includes readability level annotations at both the document and word levels, as
well as two simplified parallel versions for each text targeting learners at
two different readability levels. We describe the corpus selection process, and
outline the guidelines we followed to create the annotations and ensure their
quality. Our corpus is publicly available to support and encourage research on
Arabic text simplification, Arabic automatic readability assessment, and the
development of Arabic pedagogical language technologies.

我们提出了 SAMER 语料库，这是第一个针对学龄儿童的阿拉伯语句子简化的手工注释的平行语料库。该语料库包括了 15 部公开可获取的阿拉伯小说，总共约 159K 个单词。我们在文档和单词级别对语料库进行了可读性标注，并提供了针对不同可读性水平的两个简化版本的平行文本。我们描述了语料库的选择过程，并概述了我们创建注释和确保其质量所遵循的指导方针。我们的语料库可以公开获取，以支持和鼓励阿拉伯语句子简化、阿拉伯语自动可读性评估以及阿拉伯语教育语言技术的研究发展。