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Building a corpus of Islamic

embryology based on a robust and

elegant architecture

Alicia González Martínez,

Tillmann Josua, Thomas Eich


Outline

1 Advent and challenges of digital humanities

2 The COBHUNI project

3 The source texts

4 The workflow:

(a) collecting and processing source data

(b) annotation

(c) visualization

5 Conclusions and future work


Advent and challenges of digital humanities


The COBHUNI project

The COBHUNI project aims at diversifying our understanding

of how pre-natal life is conceptualized in texts of

Islamic normativity.

Contemporary Bioethics and the History of the Unborn in Islam


The COBHUNI project

1.1 Before the unborn

1.2 The unborn

1.3 After the Unborn

Philological exegesis

Hadith criticism

Latin script

Semen and similarity / heredity

Semen as colors

Semen and coitus interruptus or contraceptives

Semen and wet dream

Sex act itself & its timing

Conception / fertilization

General / larger debate about predestination

Embryology: 40 days

Embryology: Ensoulment

Embryology: Angel visits Embryo

Embryology: expressed in a series of numbers

Embryology: Macrocosm – microcosm

Embryology: Embryo and link to resurrection & afterlife

Embryology: Link to (modern) science

Pregnancy: duration: Definition

Miscarriage / abortion and legal status of slave mother

Miscarriage / abortion and legal status of free mother

Miscarriage / abortion and legal status of the siqt

Abortion compared to killing a new-born

Menstruation

Breast-feeding

Legal status questions concerning the child after birth

2 METAMOTIVES

3 NAMED ENTITIES Proper name→

1 MOTIVES


The source texts

COBHUNI

Corpus

crawl and extract

crawl andextract

scan and OCR&postcorrect


COBHUNICorpus

crawl and extract

crawl andextract


Source material No. tokens

altafsir.com(Quran exegesis)

12,601,880

hadith.al-islam.com 11,482,139

Scan and OCR texts 36,132

TOTAL 24,120,151

The source texts


Source material No. tokens

altafsir.com(Quran exegesis)

12,601,880

hadith.al-islam.com 11,482,139

Scan and OCR texts 36,132

TOTAL 24,120,151

The source texts

COBHUNICorpus

crawl and extract

crawl andextract


Prof. Thomas Eich | Universität Hamburg

Great ideas

COBHUNI

Corpus

insert

insert

import

export

Visualization Tool: Annis

import

queryprocessed

information

Annotation Tool: WebAnno

The workflow

insert

Collecting and processing source data


get source code

.html

crawl


.html.json

get source code

crawlConvert & filter


.htmlCOBHUNI

Corpus.json

get source code

crawl

insert

Convert & filter

Annotation

Visualization

Technical workflow


Conclusions

✔ Create a multisource and reliable corpus of

Islamic texts of about 24M tokens

✔ Annotate subset of the corpus with semantic

information

✔ Developed a robust pipeline architecture for

integrating heterogeneous data, sanitising it,

enriching it and ingesting it into a powerful

software for corpus visualization (Annis)


Future work

✔ Continue to manually annotate the subcorpus for

the COBHUNI project

✔ Add more texts for the OCR part.

✔ Convert the data to other formats so that it

can be integrated in other projects

✔ Work on strategies to enrich the texts with

morphological information


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