In addition to the visualization pictures of the Quran done for word-by-word Arabic-English translation. i tried the wordle.net on the whole Quran text in Arabic and here is the visualization picture http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2400338/Arabic_Quran it shows that the most frequent words in the Quran are function words. best regards, Majdi ================ Majdi Sawalha, mağdī ṣawālḥah School of Computing, University of Leeds. http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/sawalha ________________________________________ From: comp-quran-requ...@comp.leeds.ac.uk [comp-quran-requ...@comp.leeds.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Eric Atwell [csc...@leeds.ac.uk] Sent: 08 September 2010 11:11 To: Quranic Arabic Corpus discussion Subject: Wordle word cloud visualisation of the Quran
Wordle is a website for creating "word clouds", pictures to visualise a text by summarising the key words in a visual image. See: http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2390754/Quran1 http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2390769/Quran2 http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2390773/Quran3 for example Wordle visualisations of the word-by-word Arabic-English translation of the Quran from http://corpus.quran.com/ Are such visualisations of use to anyone? Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, Leeds LS2 9JT, England TEL: 0113-3435430 FAX: 0113-3435468 WWW/email: google Eric Atwell
