Affiliation:
1. Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 12372, Saudi Arabia
2. Department of Information Technology, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 12372, Saudi Arabia
Abstract
Islamic content is a broad and diverse domain that encompasses various sources, topics, and perspectives. However, there is a lack of comprehensive and reliable datasets that can facilitate conducting studies on Islamic content. In this paper, we present fatwaset, the first public Arabic dataset of Islamic fatwas. It contains Islamic fatwas that we collected from various trusted and authenticated sources in the Islamic fatwa domain, such as agencies, religious scholars, and websites. Fatwaset is a rich resource as it does not only contain fatwas but also includes a considerable set of their surrounding metadata. It can be used for many natural language processing (NLP) tasks, such as language modeling, question answering, author attribution, topic identification, text classification, and text summarization. It can also support other domains that are related to Islamic culture, such as philosophy and language art. We describe the methodology and criteria we used to select the content, as well as the challenges and limitations we faced. Additionally, we perform an Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), which investigates the dataset from different perspectives. The results of the EDA reveal important information that greatly benefits researchers in this area.
Funder
Deanship of scientific research in King Saud University
Subject
Information Systems and Management,Computer Science Applications,Information Systems
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