by Aslisho Qurboniev | Jun 22, 2020 | What's new |
It is not accidental that a large number of books in the OpenITI corpus belong to one important genre, the Prophetic hadith – the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad and accounts of his practice. As a repository of the Prophetic tradition (sunna), they are considered as...
by Masoumeh Seydi | Jun 17, 2020 | What's new |
A new version of the corpus used by the KITAB team is now available to download at Zenodo, an Open Science platform that supports Open Access. This is the second release developed by the OpenITI organization. It is also accessible at GitHub. The current release...
by Hamid Reza Hakimi | Jun 12, 2020 | What's new |
With currently more than 7,000 titles, collected from a number of huge digital Arabic libraries (al-Jami al-Kabir, al-Maktaba al-Shamila, Shia Online Library, etc.), the OPENITI corpus is recognised as one of the most comprehensive Arabic corpora online. The KITAB...
by Gowaart Van Den Bossche | Apr 22, 2020 | What's new |
“How can I bear to pair fair words in rhyme when I have lost the one with whom I was a pair?” So mourns the great Mamluk-era poet Ibn Nubatah al-Misri (d. 768/1366) for his deceased concubine. She was but one of the many family members the poet lost throughout his...
by Peter Verkinderen | Mar 6, 2020 | What's new |
The OpenITI corpus was designed in a way that makes it easy for scripts to access, identify and analyze the texts in the corpus. As a human reader, it was until now not easy to find a particular text you are interested in: all texts have a filename that starts with...
by Ryan Muther | Feb 3, 2020 | What's new |
Due to its size and coverage, the OpenITI corpus is useful for a wide variety of research purposes. Particularly, it represents an excellent opportunity to apply computational methods from natural language processing and machine learning to solve problems not only of...
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