This paper describes the underlying software platform used to develop and publish annotations for the Quranic Arabic Corpus (QAC). The QAC (Dukes, Atwell and Habash, 2011) is a multimodal language resource that integrates deep tagging, interlinear translation, multiple speech recordings, visualization and collaborative analysis for the Classical Arabic language of the Quran. Available online at...

Natural Language Processing Working Together with Arabic and Islamic Studies is a 2-year project funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to study prosodicsyntactic mark-up in the Quran (Atwell et al 2013). Tajwīd or correct Quranic recitation is very important in Islam. The original insight informing this project is to view tajwīd mark-up in the Quran as addi...

Japanese dependency structure is usually represented by relationships between phrasal units called bunsetsus. One of the biggest problems with dependency structure analysis in spontaneous speech is that clause boundaries are ambiguous. This paper describes a method for detecting the boundaries of quotations and inserted clauses and that for improving the dependency accuracy by applying the dete...

this paper examines the quranic stories in a narratological approach.first the problem of the research is explained and the hypothesis is raised that there is no relationship between the quranic stories and narratology.the paper then reviews the literary on the litrary approaches to the quran and the holy book.then the genealogy of the words related to quranic stories is given.in the next part,...

This paper presents work in progress to automatically extract quotation sentences from newspaper articles. The focus is the extraction and annotation of unmarked quotation sentences. A linguistic study shows that unmarked quotation sentences can be formalised into 16 patterns that can be used to develop an extraction grammar. The question of unmarked quotation boundaries identification is also ...

The software programs generally used with the TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae) [http1] and the CLCLT (CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts) [http2] CD-ROMs are not well suited for finding quotations and allusions. QuotationFinder [http3] uses more sophisticated criteria as it ranks search results based on how closely they match the source text, listing search results with literal quotations ...