Salam Qurat ul Ain, You can download the part-of-speech and morphologically tagged Quran here: http://corpus.quran.com/download. Eventually, we plan to release all data free under the GNU public license (together with terms of use). However, at present, I am afraid that the Ontology is not available for download as a data file, because it is still a work-in-progress and is undergoing further verification and expansion. See this thread for more information on this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/comp-quran@comp.leeds.ac.uk/msg00078.html We expect to a release a larger ontology for download at a future stage in the project. Right now, you can browse it online, and add corrections or suggestions via the online message board. Kind Regards, -- Kais Dukes School of Computing, University of Leeds ------------------------------------------- http://www.kaisdukes.com - Kais Dukes http://corpus.quran.com - The Quranic Arabic Corpus ------------------------------------------- Original Message: From: ainy qurat[SMTP:fieryfalco...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 11:35:48 AM To: Kais Dukes Subject: Ontology of Quranic Concepts - Needed Assalam o Alaikum Sir, I really appreciate your Quranic Arabic Corpus project. Its really an awesome work, May Allah Rewards you much more than you expect from Him! :) I am Qurat ul Ain, student of FAST-NU Islamabad, Pakistan [http://nu.edu.pk/default.aspx]. I am doing my BS(CS). Learning Semantic Web Technologies and doing my course project on it (intending to later extend it for my FYP insha Allah). My project is 'Semantic Based Intelligent Search Engine for Quranic Verses’ related Documents'. Quoting from my blog; [http://ainy-swt.blogspot.com/2010/03/swt-spring2010-project-idea.html] "This new semantic-base search engine will overcome the shortcomings of traditional search engines. By combining technologies of Semantic Web, Information Extraction (IE), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and a novel theme-based method, this framework will be able to extract factual knowledge from Quranic Verses' related Documents automatically. Instead of list of document links, results of user’s query returned will be the semantically coherent reports generated intelligently, which can satisfy users greatly." I have seen your ontology on your site; http://corpus.quran.com/ontology.jsp Masha Allah its one gem of a work. Though domain of both of ours projects is the same i.e. Qur'an but this semantic based search engine is different in a way that its related to whole Aayaats not the individual words' analysis as you did. But of course this method will also need to know about the synonyms and parts of speech of the words which are implemented in your ontology. I would really appreciate if you could send me your work so that i can re-use it, it will help me in making the queries entered in the search engine more extensive and expressive. I am here if you have any more queries regarding my work. I would be really thankful to you for your kind help. Waiting for your response. Regards, Qurat ul Ain +923215532525
