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  caption: "Book niches at Samarra, photograph by Ernst Herzfeld (Image courtesy of the [Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives](https://sova.si.edu/details/FSA.A.06?f=online_media_type%3AImages&s=2304&n=12&t=D&q=Mosques&i=2305#ref25861))"
title: "KITAB"
tagline: "Knowledge, Information Technology, & the Arabic Book"

pi_message:
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    url: "/about/"
    btn_label: "Read more"
    btn_class: "btn--primary"
    title: "A message from the PI"
    excerpt: >
       From January 2026, we begin a new chapter. With KITAB-Transform (ERC, grant no. 101199672), we continue to investigate the ways that authors work, but now – thanks to recent advances in machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) – we can be more ambitious. Previously, we were able to detect near-verbatim matches; now we want to detect matches that are semantically similar but worded differently. 

all_blogs:
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corpus_search:
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    alt: "The KITAB portal"
    title: "Explore the OpenITI corpus and reuse data"
    excerpt: 'Click the button to start searching for books in our corpus and explore our text reuse data'
    url: "https://kitab-project.org/explore"
    btn_label: "Find a book"
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<h1> Our latest blogs </h1>
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        <p> Read more blogs about KITAB's corpus, methods and data </p>

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              <p>Keep up to date with the KITABis. Follow us on twitter or subscribe to our mailing list.</p>

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              <p>Would you like to contribute to our Corpus? Do you have data you would like to share? Are you working in Classical Arabic NLP? We would love to hear from you!</p>

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