LinguisticMiracle.com Synonym Project - Data Entry in a structured form

[Omar Al Zabir]

LinguisticMiracle.com has started a project to engage institutes to prepare a synonyms dictionary of all unique words in Quran.

Proposal is to offer a spreadsheet that facilitates the data entry into a structured form so that we can process the data and prepare database out of it which can be used to enrich Quran related tools, produce mobile apps for dictionaries, auto generate books and so on.

As the first initiative the attached spreadsheet has been proposed for the data entry of Synonyms. Let us discuss what improvements we need to make on the sheet. 

[waseem ALRomimah]

A salaam Alykum

please when you finished the d synonyms of unique words of the Quran , please attach here ASAP

i need the synonyms to apply some rules in my research

Gazakum ALLAH Khair

Waseem

[Ali Adams]

Salam all,

The Quran has no synonyms. Allah swt doesn't get tired from using the same word and start using another to mean the same. NEVER.

Every word has unique meaning.

There are hierarchies of words (generalization down to specialization), whole-part words, etc.

Please use something like WordNet http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

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The most frequently encoded relation among synsets is the super-subordinate relation (also called hyperonymy, hyponymy or ISA relation). It links more general synsets like {furniture, piece_of_furniture} to increasingly specific ones like {bed} and {bunkbed}. Thus, WordNet states that the category furniture includes bed, which in turn includes bunkbed; conversely, concepts like bed and bunkbed make up the category furniture. All noun hierarchies ultimately go up the root node {entity}. Hyponymy relation is transitive: if an armchair is a kind of chair, and if a chair is a kind of furniture, then an armchair is a kind of furniture. WordNet distinguishes among Types (common nouns) and Instances (specific persons, countries and geographic entities). Thus, armchair is a type of chair, Barack Obama is an instance of a president. Instances are always leaf (terminal) nodes in their hierarchies.

Meronymy, the part-whole relation holds between synsets like {chair} and {back, backrest}, {seat} and {leg}. Parts are inherited from their superordinates: if a chair has legs, then an armchair has legs as well. Parts are not inherited “upward” as they may be characteristic only of specific kinds of things rather than the class as a whole: chairs and kinds of chairs have legs, but not all kinds of furniture have legs.

Verb synsets are arranged into hierarchies as well; verbs towards the bottom of the trees (troponyms) express increasingly specific manners characterizing an event, as in {communicate}-{talk}-{whisper}. The specific manner expressed depends on the semantic field; volume (as in the example above) is just one dimension along which verbs can be elaborated. Others are speed (move-jog-run) or intensity of emotion (like-love-idolize). Verbs describing events that necessarily and unidirectionally entail one another are linked: {buy}-{pay}, {succeed}-{try}, {show}-{see}, etc.

Adjectives are organized in terms of antonymy. Pairs of “direct” antonyms like wet-dry and young-old reflect the strong semantic contract of their members. Each of these polar adjectives in turn is linked to a number of “semantically similar” ones: dry is linked to parched, arid, dessicated and bone-dry and wet to soggy, waterlogged, etc. Semantically similar adjectives are “indirect antonyms” of the contral member of the opposite pole. Relational adjectives ("pertainyms") point to the nouns they are derived from (criminal-crime). 

There are only few adverbs in WordNet (hardly, mostly, really, etc.) as the majority of English adverbs are straightforwardly derived from adjectives via morphological affixation (surprisingly, strangely, etc.)

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Ali Adams

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[Waseem AL-Romimmah]

Walikum A salaam

Thank you brother Ali for information, but there are many researchers worked in semantic classes Kubaisi (2006) construct a thesaurus for the Quran, e.g  the word    "ظهور": the  semantic relation :برز  ,بزغ  ,طلع , بدا

and other researcher works in the ontology for the time nouns in the Quran 

Hend Al-Khalifa(2010) e.g 

غداة= زمن +نهار +محدد +نور +أول +من الفجر الى الضحى

Ghadat=Time +day + exact+ light+ beginning+ from dawn till sunrise.

now, in my research i need the semantic relation for the Quran words.

  

Best Regards,
Waseem A. AL-Romimah,

[Ali Adams]

The examples you gave are EXACTLY where research are going wrong.

These words are not used the same way.

Ask yourself a question:

What is the difference between:

"Wafaat" and "Moat"

"Lemesa" and "Mes-sa"

"Rijz" and "Rijs"

"Senna" and "3aam"

"Rasool" and "Nabi"

When you come to the conclusion that they must be different, then please read 

Soul and Spirit at http://heliwave.com/Soul.and.Spirit.pdf

Do it right; not what most think right!

Salam

Ali

 

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[islamic striver]

Salaam all,

The Synonyms researches usually don't mean that the words exactly mean the same, but rather give the subtle differences between the meaning shades and even differences between the so called synonyms. Maybe the usage of the word Synonym is causing confusion.

I am preparing a quick study index. Target released date within 2014 inshaALLAH. Priority assigned to it for 2014 is 3rd priority.
http://asimiqbal2nd.blogspot.com/2014/05/quran-synonyms-mutaradifat-ul-quran-study-index-pdf.html

Also if Omar al Zabir is reading this mail, send me the latest pdf or spreadsheet of synonyms dictionary.

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[Omar Al Zabir]

Wassalam, I spent some time taking the data from quransynonyms.com and making a database out of it where I tried to map each word in the Quran with the synonyms. I will send the stuff in an excel soon inshaa Allaah after I get it exported from the DB in a presentable format.  

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[Ali Adams]

Excellent and thus we solve the confusion in its root.

Let's call them: Similarity or Similonyms :)

One very important aspect we need to keep in mind is that, Allah swt uses "similar" words for our world and the unseen world. We can refer to such words as "materialist" vs "spiritual" words like clean and pure respectively.

Example:

Rijs (impurity - to do with energy frequencies destructive interference with our souls).

Rijz (uncleanness of our bodies).

When trying to understand the meaning of a word and settle difference between similar words, please consider using QuranCode's Related Words feature (http://qurancode.com) by clicking a word while holding the control key to bring up all verses that use this word or related words from the same root.

Example:

Bashar = Any being made from clay

Insaan = Any Bashar who can forget

How do we know that? Because Allah swt uses the word Bashar for the Prophet (pbuh+f) and human too, but only Insaan for us. Furthermore, negative attributes are assigned to Insaan not Bashar. Without seeing all related verses (using QuranCode), we would never know. BTW, I thought Insaan comes from Anes (Social) but animals are social too.

Good luck.

Salam

Ali

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[Waseem AL-Romimmah]

Sallam all, brother Ali thanks for notes, i mean how we can using the words that have the same context meaning in the Arabic Quran serve us the expansion query in information retrieval system? please if you have thesaurus relation words in the Quran send it to me ASAP.

i thank your example is serve the retrieval system, but the example can be categories.

brother Asim Iqbal, i download the files doc format for specific surah that contains the words, are this synonyms ? example:

To come out

نکلنا

Kharaja Baraza Nafara Ghazaa Zahaqa Nafatha Sallala Liwaathan Dafaqa Sharaqa Tala’aa

خَرَجَ بَرَزَ نَفَرَ غَزَى زَهَقَ نَفَذَ سَلَّلَ لِوَاذاً دَفَقَ شَرَقَ طَلَعَ

 

 

Waseem A.

[Ali Adams]

Salam brother,

No I don't have a list of related words but in sha Allah I will add a "Research Method" to QuranCode to generate all related words for all words in the Quran.

Is this useful for your research?

Al-hamdu liAllah I have another requirement to derive all forms of every 3-letter-rooted verb used in the Quran and display them next to the related words above.

The attached table gives the rules for all possible forms (whether they make sense or not).

Salam

Ali

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[islamic striver]

Salaam all!

Instead of Surahs, I am working on Root based & Topic based method. Check the link I sent earlier containing the screenshot to work in progress.

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[Ali Adams]

Salam brothers,

I have updated QuranCode to produce WordRelatedWords and WordRelatedVerses

The first took 3 hours to run and produced a 153Mb text file (zipped to 23Mb) for the whole Quran (select all chapters with Ctrl+A inside the chapter list). You may download the result from http://heliwave.com/RelatedWords.zip or download QuranCode from http://qurancode.com and run the methods yourself (in the ComboBox at bottom left) chapter by chapter to see if useful in sha Allah.

Ali

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[Waseem AL-Romimmah]

Salaam all, brother Ali thank you very much wa Gazak ALLAH Alf Khair , it is grate work.

thanks 

Waseem