The Quranic Arabic Corpus is an annotated linguistic resource consisting of 77,430 words of Quranic Arabic. The project aims to provide morphological and syntactic annotations for researchers wanting to study the language of the Quran.
[ K. Dukes, E. Atwell and N. Habash (2011)]
''Supervised Collaboration for Syntactic Annotation of Quranic Arabic.''
Language Resources and Evaluation Journal (LREJ). Special Issue on Collaboratively Constructed Language Resources.[K. Dukes and T. Buckwalter (2010)]
''A Dependency Treebank of the Quran using Traditional Arabic Grammar.''
In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS). Cairo, Egypt.[The Quranic Arabic Corpus]
at The Muslim Tribune. June 20, 2011.
Functions
The grammatical analysis helps readers further in uncovering the detailed intended meanings of each verse and sentence. Each word of the Quran is tagged with its part-of-speech as well as multiple morphological features. Unlike other annotated Arabic corpora, the grammar framework adopted by the Quranic Corpus is the traditional Arabic grammar of
i'rab (). The research project is led by
Kais Dukes
Kais Dukes is a British computer scientist and software developer, known for the development of the Quranic Arabic Corpus.
Dukes was born to an English father who converted to Islam and a Saudi Arabian mother, and grew up bilingual.
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[ and is part of the Arabic language computing research group within the School of Computing, supervised by Eric Atwell.
The annotated corpus includes:][ K. Dukes and Habash, N. (2011)]
''One-step Statistical Parsing of Hybrid Dependency-Constituency Syntactic Representations.''
International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT). Dublin, Ireland.
* A manually verified part-of-speech tagged Quranic Arabic corpus.
* An annotated treebank
In linguistics, a treebank is a parsed text corpus that annotates syntactic or semantic sentence structure. The construction of parsed corpora in the early 1990s revolutionized computational linguistics, which benefitted from large-scale empiri ...
of Quranic Arabic.
* A novel visualization of traditional Arabic grammar
Arabic grammar or Arabic language sciences ( ar, النحو العربي ' or ar, عُلُوم اللغَة العَرَبِيَّة ') is the grammar of the Arabic language. Arabic is a Semitic language and its grammar has many similarities with ...
through dependency graphs.
* Morphological search for the Quran.
* A machine-readable morphological lexicon of Quranic words into English.
* A part-of-speech concordance for Quranic Arabic organized by lemma.
* An online message board for community volunteer annotation.
Corpus annotation assigns a part-of-speech tag and morphological features to each word. For example, annotation involves deciding whether a word is a noun or a verb, and if it is inflected for masculine or feminine. The first stage of the project involved automatic part-of-speech tagging by applying Arabic language computing technology to the text. The annotation for each of the 77,430 words in the Quran was then reviewed in stages by two annotators, and improvements are still ongoing to further improve accuracy.
Linguistic research for the Quran that uses the annotated corpus includes training Hidden Markov model
A hidden Markov model (HMM) is a statistical Markov model in which the system being modeled is assumed to be a Markov process — call it X — with unobservable ("''hidden''") states. As part of the definition, HMM requires that there be an o ...
part-of-speech taggers for Arabic, automatic categorization of Quranic chapters, and prosodic analysis of the text.[C. Brierley, M. Sawalha and E. Atwell (2012)]
''Boundary Annotated Qur'an Corpus for Arabic Phrase Break Prediction.''
IVACS Annual Symposium. Cambridge.
In addition, the project provides a word-by-word Quranic translation based on accepted English sources, instead of producing a new translation of the Qur'an.[
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See also
* Corpus linguistics
* Quran
The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , s ...
* Classical Arabic
* Treebank
In linguistics, a treebank is a parsed text corpus that annotates syntactic or semantic sentence structure. The construction of parsed corpora in the early 1990s revolutionized computational linguistics, which benefitted from large-scale empiri ...
References
External links
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