Assalamu Alaikum Kias; It might be convinient to install a wiki in your site..this would enable collaborative authoring on various subjects related to Quranic Arabic grammar, morphology, etc.
best regards, Abdul Baqi On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Kais Dukes <[email protected]> wrote: > Salamu Alaykum, > > Hello All. We are hoping to soon release a new version of the Quranic > Arabic Corpus (version 0.21). Major highlights in this release include > an extended treebank, improved linguistic annotation, and the first > version of pronoun resolution for key chapters of the Quran. An > informal list of new planned features here can be found here: > http://kaisdukes.wordpress.com/category/quranic-arabic-corpus. > > As part of this release, we would really like to see the grammar > documentation section extended. These online annotation guidelines are > useful not only to ensure consistency in the word-by-word grammar > pages, but also allow new visitors of the site to get an overview of > key topics. We would like to extend an open invitation for submissions > to the annotation guidelines. Would you be interested in putting > together a brief 1 or 2 page write-up on a particular topic in Quranic > grammar? For example, here is an interesting page on gender: > http://corpus.quran.com/documentation/gender.jsp > > Here is another example page, on the different semantic usages of the > prefix alif in the Quran: > http://corpus.quran.com/documentation/particlealif.jsp > > If you have a small amount of time, it would be great to get a write > up on an interesting topic! Some ideas for this (but not limited to): > > - An explanation of Arabic roots for beginners (trilateral and > quadrilateral radicals) > - Brief summary of Arabic verb patterns (wazn and masdar) > - A table explaining verb forms I to XII (we annotate these forms on > the corpus, but we don't have any documentation on them online) > - The difference between harf tafseer and harf madsadree > > It would be great for others with knowledge on these topics to > contribute even a little bit to this. Feel free to submit a write up > to me directly: [email protected] > > You don’t even have to write up something too long. Even a couple of > paragraphs on a key topic would be great, although a strong preference > is for submissions to include references to well-accepted literature. > Don’t feel limited to the above topics; anything is more than welcome. > We can also extend the existing documentation pages here: > http://corpus.quran.com/documentation/grammar.jsp, so feel free to > include new notes on an existing topic as well. If you feel like > writing something, please drop me an e-mail, and we can talk about it > further. Looking forward to hearing from you! > > Kind Regards, > > -- Kais Dukes > > Language Research Group > School of Computing > University of Leeds > > http://www.kaisdukes.com - Kais Dukes > http://corpus.quran.com - The Quranic Arabic Corpus > > -- Best regards, Abdul Baqi
