Dear Kais, This will be agreat idea, i may help you in this. I used the Qur'an before to train the chatbot. I took all verses in arabic and English. However the idea was not as the one you suggested because my database was only the qur'an without interpretation. So when you ask a question about Islam, an answer would be obtained from the Qur'an verse, so the answer is the verse that match least frequent words.
At that time i used some of Islamin questions obtained from ISlamway.com, and other islamic sites. Then i asked muslims and non muslims to evalute if the answeres obtained were related, partially related or non. Now, are you goinf to use the English version of the Qur'an as the sourse of your answer, or as i understood we would like to obtain an answer as you mentioned then we could refer the user to verse number and soora in Qur'an. In this cae in additin to questions, what will be your databse: is it a structure database as QA as the one found in TREC. Just if you could provide me with an image of how your corpus is structured. Then i can use this corpus to feed the chatbot with, and we can try to use this chatbot as a QA and see how resuts will be, and i will try to modify it or build it from scratch. Eric and me was discussing such idea last July, but i was not have enough time, now you raise up the idea to surface again, and i will be happy to work on it. looking forward o hearing from you for further cooperation, if you have any question, let me know please. Best wishes, Bayan --- On Sat, 27/2/10, Kais Dukes <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Kais Dukes <[email protected]> > Subject: Advice Required - Dialog System for the Quran > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, 27 February, 2010, 20:46 > 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 > [email protected] > - Computational Quranic Arabic discussion list >
