Huge amount of different types of information is being posted on the web on daily basis. There are available tools to enable users to search for this vast amount of information. Figure 1 provides the different types of web information. Certain types of web information need to verify its correctness once posted on the web (i.e. the information has a reference that cannot be tampered with or chan...

This is a brief history of the beginning of the Orientalist studies of hadith, which will shed light on the most prominent works and views Western scholars on hadith, the nature as well as the impact of their outcomes on Muslims and Western worlds. The beginning era of such studies was between 1890 to 1950. In this period, two influential and founding works of Ignatz Goldziher and Josef Schacht...

Certain types of web information need to be verified for correctness once being posted on the web (i. e. the information has a reference that cannot be tampered with). Such these types of information need systems in order to verify and assure their correctness. "The Hadith"; which is the sayings of Prophet Mohammad is an example of these types of information. Hadith in Islam is a very...

There are billions of believers of various religions in the world and Islam is the second largest religion having 1.6 billion followers. The primary written sources of religious beliefs and practices of Muslims are the Quran and the Hadith (saying and practices of their prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him). Written text of the Quran and the Hadith books is of manageable size and hence state of t...

Knowledge extraction from unstructured data is a challenging research problem in research domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP). It requires complex NLP tasks like entity extraction and Information Extraction (IE), but one of the most challenging tasks is to extract all the required entities of data in the form of structured format so that data analysis can be applied. Our focus is to exp...

Problem statement: The needs of computer forensics investigators have been directly influenced by the increasing number of crimes performed using computers. It is the responsibility of the investigator to ascertain the authenticity of the collected digital evidence. Without proper classification of digital evidence, the computer forensics investigator may ended up investigating using untrusted ...

Internet users are more likely to ignore Internet content verification and more likely to share the content. When it comes to Islamic content, it is crucial to share and spread fake or inaccurate content. Even if the verification process of Islamic content is becoming easier every day, the Internet users generally ignore the verification step and jump into sharing the content. “How many clicks ...

While the linked data paradigm has gathered much attention over the recent years, the domain of Islamic knowledge has yet to cache upon its full potential. The web-scale integration of Islamic texts and knowledge sources at large is currently not well facilitated. The two primary sources of the Islamic legislation are the Qur’an and the Hadith (collections of Prophetic Narrations) and form the ...

It is well known that certain Islamic Jurists and Scholars like Imam Bukari, Imam Muslim, and Imam Tirmizi, did exhaustive research to collect the sayings and traditions of our beloved Prophet PBUH. They then presented their collected works as 'Al Hadith' of the Prophet to the populace. Not only were these authenticated, as to their degree of authenticity, but each of the witnesses, or the chai...

The religion of Islam is based on a sacred text called Qur‟an, a divine speech expressed in Arabic language. Qur‟an constitutes the main root of Islam jurisprudence which has a second source of inspiration known as Hadiths. As the Muslim‟s life is governed by those holy texts, need of their authenticity is required. Using VSM (Vector Space Model), we can represent Hadiths as a vector of words. ...