In this paper, we describe and compare two statistical parsing approaches for the hybrid dependency-constituency syntactic representation used in the Quranic Arabic Treebank (Dukes and Buckwalter, 2010). In our first approach, we apply a multi-step process in which we use a shift-reduce algorithm trained on a pure dependency preprocessed version of the treebank. After parsing, the dependency ou...

a large number of verses in holy quran deal with the issues of women, such as their rights and duties and the juridical commandments about them. in addition, the names of some famous women have been pointed out in some of its chapters (surahs) who played main roles in quranic stories or historical events. utilizing library sources, women-related quranic verses which have been brought in third e...

We observe an ever-increasing role of religions in fighting the environmental crisis. Religious argumentation has enormous potential to shape attitudes followers religions. Applying this can signifi-cantly change towards environment majority human population. Christianity and Islam together have over 4 billion followers. Here, we present seven common Biblical Quranic issues that are key nature....

Corresponding Author: Ahmad Alqurneh Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia Email: [email protected] Abstract: Computational stylometry is the field that studies the distinctive style of a written text using computational tasks. The first task is how to define quantifiable measures in a text and the second is to classify the...

This paper presents QurAna: a large corpus created from the original Quranic text, where personal pronouns are tagged with their antecedence. These antecedents are maintained as an ontological list of concepts, which has proved helpful for information retrieval tasks. QurAna is characterized by: (a) comparatively large number of pronouns tagged with antecedent information (over 24,500 pronouns)...