I am a PhD student in the School of Computing @ Leeds. I have obtained my Msc in Computer Science from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in the Year 2001, and my thesis title was An Object Oriented Model for Semantic Analysis

I will be doing my PhD research under the supervision of Dr. Eric Atwell.

I will be trying to build a Computational Model for Knowledge Representation of the Quran. Here are few thoughts on the 3 main keywords used:

  1. Computational Model - to build a model using the power of computing.
  2. Knowledge Representation - an internal representation of the text of Quran that is somehow "understood" by a machine. NLP tools and techniques can be used on this internal knowledge representation, and interface for human interaction can be built.
  3. The Quran (used to be mis-spelled as the Koran) - This is an Arabic text of around 600 pages, which -as Muslims believe- are words of Allah. Quran indicates that no text is even comparable to it in terms of it's linguistic beauty and solutions it provides for the mankind. Quran claims that it has no contradiction within, and that if all mankind with a combined effort try to bring a book like it, they will not be able. Assuming these claims are true, it would be interesting to do computational linguistic researches on this text to verify and validate such claims.