Salamu Alaykum Safiah, It's great to hear that you have found the Quranic Arabic Corpus useful. At the moment, there are two ongoing projects for grammatical annotation. Each of these projects aims to build a machine-readable database of annotation, which can then be searched.
1. Morphology. This will determine the correct part-of-speech for each word (noun, verb, ...) as well as case endings and verb moods (majroor, marfoo3, etc), together with many other morphological tags. 2. Syntactic Treebank. This will be the full i'raab for each verse in the Quran, in a machine readable database, encoded using dependency grammar. There are 77,430 words in the Quran. So far, the Morphology project covers the entire Quran, but the Syntactic Treebank only covers about 11,000 words. Morphology: http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp Syntactic Treebank: http://corpus.quran.com/treebank.jsp If you want to perform a morphological search (e.g. part-of-speech), you can use the morphological search page: http://corpus.quran.com/morphologicalsearch.jsp However, if as you indicate you need to perform a search for a particular syntactic structure, then I am afraid that type of search will only really be possible when the syntactic Treebank project completes, and covers all verses of the Quran. Inshallah, this will be later this year. Once the entre syntax of the Quran has been entered into a structured database, this type of search will be possible. I would be interested to know, what type of search did you have in mind? Can you give an example? It still might be possible to do, it depends on exactly what type of syntactic structure you are looking for. Please feel free to reply to the mailing list ([email protected]). Kind Regards, - Kais Dukes Language Research Group School of Computing University of Leeds http://corpus.quran.com - The Quranic Arabic Corpus [email protected] - Computational Quranic Arabic discussion list > 2010/3/2 Kais Dukes <[email protected]>: > > ------------------------------------------- > From: Sof-sophie M[SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:10:09 PM > To: Kais Dukes > > Hello, > > This is Safiah Madkhali from Saudi Arabia. Thanks to every one who shared in > the project o Qur'anic Arabic corpus. I would like whether it is possible in > using it to search a certain syntactic form in the whole Qur'an and how I can > do that. > Thank you
