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

Hamed Al-Suhli hamed at e3rab.com
Tue Nov 17 19:00:38 UTC 2009


Dear Kais,

I monitored your work with interesting, and you are welcomed.
As a professional programmer do you have any suggestion for our online
platform, the website? open source solution for future development are
essential.
"unfortunately, I'm not a dot net person".

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Kais Dukes <sckd at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>


-- 
Hamed Al-Suhli
http://e3rab.com
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