Hello Members of the Computational Quran Mailing List, Current research in the Quranic Arabic Corpus project involves:
- Morphological annotation - Syntactic annotation - Ontology of Quranic Concepts (towards a semantic representation of the Quran) As well as extending the morphological and syntactic annotation of the Quran, I am keen to start thinking about a later stage of this research. The final (long-term) aim of this project is to build an intelligent expert question-answering system. An example might be: ========================== Question: How long should I breastfeed my child for? Answer: "Mothers may breastfeed their children two complete years for whoever wishes to complete the nursing [period]." - Source: The Holy Quran, verse (2:233). ========================== Such a system would allow general website users to ask simple questions, and get back answers based on facts contained in verses of the Quran. As a first step to constructing such a system, I am keen to get hold of a large list of questions (and hopefully answers) backed by verses of the Quran. I would like to ask the members of this mailing list advice on building together a list of sample questions (e.g. several hundred or several thousand questions that people might commonly ask). Does anybody have any suggestions for online (or other resources) for Islamic questions and answers, hopefully with all the answers directly as verses of the Quran? It would also be great to hear ideas on how a powerful dialog system of the Quran might approach - or even any ideas about dialog systems in general. Looking forward to any responses. Please feel free to reply directly to the mailing list (just hit reply all). Kind Regards, - Kais Dukes Language Research Group School of Computing University of Leeds http://corpus.quran.com - The Quranic Arabic Corpus comp-quran@comp.leeds.ac.uk - Computational Quranic Arabic discussion list
