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QuranAnalysis (QA) Project

Introduction

The goal of this project is to build a Semantic Search and Intelligence System for the Quran, providing normal users and scholars the ability to search the Quran semantically, analyse all aspects of the text, find hidden patterns and associations using state-of-the-art visualization techniques.

http://www.qurananalysis.com

QA started as an MSc project at the University of Leeds in 2015 supervised by Eric Atwell. The project aimed to glu-together and build on previous research done in the university providing an opensource framework for Quran Analysis work, a framework which can facilitate research, boost applications and foster innovation in that area.

More information can be found in my Thesis below

QuranAnalysis: A Semantic Search and Intelligence System for the Quran

Feel free to use QA in your research or applications, also contributions are welcome.

How can you benefit from QA ?

Assuming you are a developer or researcher, with more than 20,000 lines of code you can benefit in many ways as explained below

  • Access to language corpus and resources (inlcuding QA Ontology)
  • Reusable code and algorithms
  • Libraries for various tasks around Arabic Language handling, Data Model manipulation, NLP, Semantics, and Quran specifics
  • QA Ontology extraction module
  • Search Engine, Question Answering and Semantic Application Implementation
  • Novel D3 visualzation techniques
  • Speed up prototyping by reusing QA user interface

QA Unique Resources

  1. QA Ontology: OWL file including rich concepts, relations and metadata from the Quran
  2. Stopwords Lists: Quranic stop words lists
  3. Simple to Uthmani Mapping File: A file containing one-to-one mapping between simple and uthmani words from the Quran
  4. Qurana to QAC segment Mapping File: QAC and Qurana has different segments counts. The file includes one-to-one mapping between QAC and Qurana segment numbers
  5. Longest Common Substrings in the Quran: A file containing all common substrings in the Quran - extracted using LCS algorithm

External Resources used in QA

  1. Tanzil Project - Quran Text: Authentic Simple/Uthmani text of the the Quran
  2. Tanzil Project - Quran Translation: English translation corpus of the Quran
  3. Tanzil Project - Quran Transliteration: English transliteration corpus of the Quran
  4. Quranic Arabic Corpus: PoS tagged corpus of the Quran with morphological annotations
  5. Quranic Arabic Corpus Word-by-Word: Word by word Arabic-English translation corpus of the Quran (Edited & not up to date)
  6. Qurana: Corpus of the Quran annotated with Pronominal Anaphora
  7. Wordnet: English dictionary and thesaurus corpus
  8. DBPedia: semantic structured data extracted from Wikipedia
  9. D3 Javascript Library
  10. JQuery and JQuery Tagcloud Javascript Libraries
  11. TinySort Javascript Library
  12. OWLLib PHP Library
  13. Microsoft Translator API
  14. PHPir PoS Tagging Library
  15. Brown corpus lexicon for English PoS Tagging
  16. English stop-words project
  17. OpenOffice ar.dic file
  18. Arabic stopwords list from Ar-PHP project
  19. TextMiningTheQuran stop-words list
  20. Limited number of basic English and Arabic stopwords taken from

Libraries

  • charts.lib.php
  • core.lib.php
  • custom.translation.table.lib.php
  • graph.lib.php
  • microsoft.translator.api.lib.php
  • ontology.lib.php
  • pos.tagger.lib.php
  • question.answering.lib.php
  • search.lib.php
  • wordnet.lib.php
  • owllib

List of functions can be found here

WIKI

https://github.com/karimouda/qurananalysis/wiki

Setup

https://github.com/karimouda/qurananalysis/wiki/Setup

Tutorials

https://github.com/karimouda/qurananalysis/wiki/Tutorials

Project Structure

https://github.com/karimouda/qurananalysis/wiki/Project-Structure

Ideas

https://github.com/karimouda/qurananalysis/wiki/Future-Work-Ideas

Notes

I am sorry that some parts in the code are messy, undocumented and not well designed, this is due to shortage of time, stress and the novelty aspect of the project which lead me to focus more on research, coding and thesis writing to meet deadlines. I thought releasing the code this way is much better than waiting until i have time to clean it up which can take forever.

License

Quran Analysis (www.qurananalysis.com). Full Semantic Search and Intelligence System for the Quran.
Copyright (C) 2015  Karim Ouda

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

You can use Quran Analysis code, framework and corpora in your website
or application (commercial/non-commercial) provided that you link
back to www.qurananalysis.com and sufficient credits are given.