Programme booklet (pdf)
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POSTER ABSTRACTS<br />
Abstract<br />
Source Verification in Quran<br />
Shokrollahi-Far, Mahmoud<br />
Tilburg University<br />
The revelation of Holy Quran has been accomplished either in Mecca or in Medina, for<br />
which some chapters or even verses of the book have been classified as either Meccan<br />
or Medinan. This crucial classification helps the scholars of Quran in so many topics<br />
including the exegesis of the book. Among the one hundred and fourteen chapters of<br />
Quran there are still thirty-two disagreed on to be whether Meccan or Medinan. More<br />
deeply, the scholars have long disputed on the features that would discriminate<br />
between these two classes. This paper reports a research trend on applying text<br />
classification tasks, say source verification, to help the resolution of such Quranic<br />
disputes. For this binary TC task, some classifiers have been induced by training SVM<br />
and Naive Bays machines on the tagged corpora of Quranic texts bootstrapped by<br />
Mobin, a morpho-syntactic tagger developed for Arabic. This research has not only<br />
explored the required distinctive grammatical features, but also led to a successful<br />
classification of the disputed chapters and verses as Meccan or Medinan.<br />
Corresponding author: m.shokrollahifar@uvt.nl<br />
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