---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kais Dukes <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 5:52 PM Subject: Feedback required - Ontology of Quranic Concepts - and Pronoun Resolution + Named Entity Recognition To: Kais Dukes <[email protected]>
Hello, Apologies for the mass anonymous email, but we are still in the process of collecting names for the mailing list. I would really appreciate people's feedback on three new features I am planning to add to the corpus. (1) Pronoun resolution. So this will indicate what a pronoun (e.g. he, she, it, them) refers to. (2) Named entity recognition. Mapping individual words (or spans of words) to the concepts that they refer to. (3) The ontology of concepts. Knowledge representation - lists all the concepts in the quran, and shows how they are logically related (e.g. ishmael - son-of - ibrahim). I've not uploaded the new version of this website yet. I wanted to get people's opinions. The ontology I have constructed so far has 300 concepts and about 400 relations. I would estimate a full ontology for the quran would have several thousand concepts. If you have the time, I would very much appreciate it if you could look at these 8 screenshots that better explain the idea: http://quran.uk.net/ontology-demo/slide1.html I'm really looking to feedback on this new proposed feature to the Quranic Arabic Corpus. In terms of timing, I plan to mark up pronouns and other named entities during the process of sytanctic annotation, so as we build the treebank. I don't think that this will introduce a large overhead to the project (in fact, its probably quicker if we do this as we go along with syntax as opposed to during another seperate annotation stage). The ontology outlined in the above screenshots focuses on named entities in the quran (people, places, animals, etc). We can later extend this to include an ontology section for legal topics (Islam law) and also for faith-related issues. Please let me know what you think of the above link. Kind Regards, -- Kais Dukes School of Computing University of Leeds -- Hamed Al-Suhli http://e3rab.com
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