On Saturday March 4, 2023 at 11:00AM-4:00PM US EST at the Program in Islamic Law’s office in Austin Hall, our SHARIAsource Lab will lead a Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes event. Join us for a chance to help write the next chapter in the history of the Arabic script where we bring our efforts together to finally … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lab :: Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes, Harvard Law School, March 4, 2023 @ 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
An Experiment in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Islamic Law :: Part 2 ::
By Mairaj Syed Results I initially decided that I would divide up the Testimony chapter into 7-gram word fragments, because the original evidence canon consisted of seven Arabic words. This created a list of 38,683 7-gram fragments. Being ambitious and hoping to be lucky, I decided to send the google service 1000 texts at a … Continue reading An Experiment in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Islamic Law :: Part 2 ::
An Experiment in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Islamic Law :: Part 1 ::
By Mairaj Syed Project Description and Goals As I briefly indicated in my previous blog post, a fundamental desideratum for the field of Islamic law and ethics is a corpus of texts whose argumentation has been fully mined: conclusions would be distinguished from premises, and the premises categorized according to type of argument. The … Continue reading An Experiment in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Islamic Law :: Part 1 ::
Mapping COVID-19 Fatwās
The Fatwa Collection The Submission Form The Project The “Mapping Covid Fatwas Project” came about in early March 2020 when global awareness of the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) extended beyond hot spots in China, Iran and Italy. Prof. Adnan Zulfiqar (Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School) began noticing increased commentary from religious scholars on … Continue reading Mapping COVID-19 Fatwās