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Quranic Arabic Corpus

Quranic Arabic Corpus is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Quranic Arabic Corpus rather than just read about it. In short: The Quranic Arabic Corpus (Arabic: المدونة القرآنية العربية, romanized: al-mudawwana al-Qurʾāni al-ʿArabiyya) is an annotated linguistic resource consisting of 77,430 words of Quranic Arabic. The project aims to provide morphological and syntactic annotations for researchers wanting to study the language of the Quran.

Key takeaways

Quranic Arabic Corpus belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Quranic Arabic Corpus to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Quranic Arabic Corpus from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Quranic Arabic Corpus (Arabic: المدونة القرآنية العربية, romanized: al-mudawwana al-Qurʾāni al-ʿArabiyya) is an annotated linguistic resource consisting of 77,430 words of Quranic Arabic. The project aims to provide morphological and syntactic annotations for researchers wanting to study the language of the Quran.

Functions The grammatical analysis helps readers further in uncovering the detailed intended meanings of each verse and sentence. Each word of the Quran is tagged with its part-of-speech as well as multiple morphological features. Unlike other annotated Arabic corpora, the grammar framework adopted by the Quranic Corpus is the traditional Arabic grammar of i'rab (إﻋﺮﺍﺏ). The research project is led by Kais Dukes at the University of Leeds, and is part of the Arabic language computing research group within the School of Computing, supervised by Eric Atwell. The annotated corpus includes:

A manually verified part-of-speech tagged Quranic Arabic corpus. An annotated treebank of Quranic Arabic. A novel visualization of traditional Arabic grammar through dependency graphs. Morphological search for the Quran. A machine-readable morphological lexicon of Quranic words into English. A part-of-speech concordance for Quranic Arabic organized by lemma. An online message board for community volunteer annotation. Corpus annotation assigns a part-of-speech tag and morphological features to each word. For example, annotation involves deciding whether a word is a noun or a verb, and if it is inflected for masculine or feminine. The first stage of the project involved automatic part-of-speech tagging by applying Arabic language computing technology to the text. The annotation for each of the 77,430 words in the Quran was then reviewed in stages by two annotators, and improvements are still ongoing to further improve accuracy. Linguistic research for the Quran that uses the annotated corpus includes training Hidden Markov model part-of-speech taggers for Arabic, automatic categorization of Quranic chapters, and prosodic analysis of the text. In addition, the project provides a word-by-word Quranic translation based on accepted English sources, instead of producing a new translation of the Qur'an.

See also Corpus linguistics Quran Classical Arabic Treebank

References

External links Quranic Arabic Corpus

Illustrations

Quranic Arabic Corpus: Dependency syntax tree for verse (67:1) — Dependency syntax tree for verse (67:1)

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Quranic Arabic Corpus

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Quranic Arabic Corpus claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Quranic Arabic Corpus before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Quranic Arabic Corpus ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Quranic Arabic Corpus

In research: Quranic Arabic Corpus appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Quranic Arabic Corpus in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Quranic Arabic Corpus is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Applied linguistics, Arabic language, Corpora, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Quranic Arabic Corpus outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Quranic Arabic Corpus in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Quranic Arabic Corpus means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Quranic Arabic Corpus out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Quranic Arabic Corpus in simple terms?

Why does Quranic Arabic Corpus matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Quranic Arabic Corpus?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Quranic Arabic Corpus.