Salam Wajdi, This looks great - a very useful resource of Islamic questions and answers. Thanks for this. I also like your idea of covering both English and Arabic if possible in a future Question-Answering system.
-- Kais On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:24 PM, <waj...@ldc.upenn.edu> wrote: > Hello Kais, > > I have been using a website that has a valuable data base of QA. Most of the > answers are taken from the Quran or the authentic Hadiths with some > explanations. The data base is quiet huge and it has been there for 13 > years. > > > One thing you can to do train your QA system is to take all the data from > that website and filter the text in the answer keeping just the quran > verses. > Of course you need to contact them for copyrights issue. > > You can even aim for english/arabic Quran QA system since most of the > questions are available in both languages. > > the website is :www.islam-qa.com > > by the way , here is an example of a QA in english for the question you > mentioned. > > http://www.islam-qa.com/en/ref/721/breast > > > sample question categories in arabic > http://www.islam-qa.com/ar/cat/360 > > Hope this will be helpful. > > > Wajdi > > > > Quoting Kais Dukes <dukes.k...@googlemail.com>: > >> 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 >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > >
