Dear members of the comp-quran mailing list,
In version 0.3 of the Quranic Arabic Corpus, we had a new user-contributed section on Arabic verb forms (see: http://corpus.quran.com/documentation/verbforms.jsp). This information is useful, so that now annotators can quickly look up what a form I to form X verb should look like in general. My question is this - does anyone know of any free online material for form I to form X active participles, passive participles and verbal nouns? Essentially, I’m looking for some good online material that shows what these derived forms look like as nouns, as a general guide. So for example, just exactly what is a form X passive participle? The reason I am asking this, is that recently, on the website's message board a lot of inter-annotator discussion has been on the precise tagging of the forms of nouns derived from verbs. Even better, would anyone be interested in contributing a brief one to two page essay on this? If so, we can incorporate it into the next version of the website and the next version of the annotation guidelines. I would be happy to add your name(s) - if you wish - the list of prominent website contributors: http://corpus.quran.com/contact.jsp. As further encouragement, if you contribute, you're work is likely to be of value to a great many people. The Quranic Arabic Corpus website (http://corpus.quran.com), is now used by over different 2,500 people each day, and has grown into one of the most popular Quranic research websites online. Looking forward to hearing from you! P.S. If it’s okay, please feel free to hit “reply all” to this e-mail so that you can share your reply with other members of the comp-quran mailing list. Kind Regards, -- Kais Dukes School of Computing, University of Leeds http://www.kaisdukes.com
