Encoding Prototype of Al-Hadith Al-Shareef in TEI

Abstract

The standardization of Al-Hadith Al-Shareef can guarantee the interoperability and interchangeability with other textual sources and takes the processing of Al-Hadith corpus to a higher level. Still, research works on Hadith corpora had not previously considered the standardization as real objective, especially for some standards such as TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). In this context, we aim at the standardization of Al-Hadith Al-Shareef on the basis of the TEI guidelines. To achieve this objective, we elaborated a TEI model that we customized for Hadith structure. Then we developed a prototype allowing the encoding of Hadith text. This prototype analyses Hadith texts and automatically generates a standardized version of the Hadith in TEI format. The evaluation of the TEI model and the prototype is based on Hadith corpus collected from Sahih Bukhari. The obtained results were encouraging despite some flaws related to exceptional cases of Hadith structure.