[Corpora-List] Proposal for initiating a global non continentalArabic Language Academy

[Kais Dukes]

Dear Hamed,



I am working on the "Quranic Arabic Corpus", a research project at the University of Leeds where we are mapping the morphology, syntax and Arabic grammar of the Quran (http://quran.uk.net). So far we have applied computational tools for Arabic corpora to automatically tag and then manually verify each word for part-of-speech and morphological inflection features. We are also working on a dependency treebank of the Quran using traditional Arabic syntax (i'rab).



>>From what I understand, as part of your proposal you mention the aim of studying Quranic Arabic. As such, I would be more than happy to be part of this proposal, it sounds directly relevant to our current research here.



Do please let me know if I can be of any assistance with this - I would like to be involved.



Kind Regards,



Kais Dukes

School of Computing

University of Leeds

http://quran.uk.net - The Quranic Arabic Corpus



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Hamed Al-Suhli <hamed at e3rab.com<mailto:hamed at e3rab.com>>
Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Proposal for initiating a global non continentalArabic Language Academy
To: Oliver Mason <O.Mason at bham.ac.uk<mailto:O.Mason at bham.ac.uk>>

Dear All,

Thank you for responding, however many issues have been raised and I'll discuss them one by one.
1- why Islamic tending?
As I mentioned and Dr.Nizar declared there are tow directions for standarizing  Arabic nowadays, the modern standard Arabic VS the Quranic standard Arabic.
Both are not spoken widely and the modern standard Arabic still not yet completed, in spite of some proposals for regional dialects to became an independent languages the standard Arabic is the only written and widely dominated the culture and formal usage.
non Muslim Arabs writings are the only non Quranic Arabic writing till the end of 19th century, when some Arabic Muslims nationalists start writing without the restrict Arabic linguistic rules, which lead after a century to non restricted Arabic language we called modern Arabic.
because of Quran the modern Arabic can't eleminate the standard Naho (syntax) or Sarf (etymological system), and it still leak of precise or standards.
Thou my proposal centralized by the hold on with well standarized Quranic Arabic and completion of its missing modern "computational, etymological and semantic" standarizations.

2-The proposal definitely not limited or restricted to Muslims.

3- The fund and the Full outlines of the establishment:
let's take the thing step by step, we need [1]enough enthusiasm professional founders and [2]temporary online platform [3] arranging an appointment for first meeting [4]proposing outlines and manager(s) for the meeting.
I can offer the temporary online platform
and we are discussing the other requirements.



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