Design Requirements for Multilingual Hadith Corpus

Samah Mohamed Osman Hassan, Dr. Eric Atwell

Abstract: This paper discusses the requirements of users who are willing to be familiarized with Hadith. The first set of questions aimed to personal information. The remaining eight questions about Hadith started by identifying why users reading Hadith also requested them to declare their opinion regarding finding Hadith explanation and word meaning in Arabic, moreover Finding moral for each Hadith, And Hadith explanation, word meaning, and moral in one website. Muslim finding Hadith in different languages, along with the source and classification of each Hadith respectively. Finally, the users had been requested to indicate their search methods preferences whether like to read Hadith from websites or from books.

Keywords: Hadith, Corpus, Multilingual, Correct Hadith, Weak Hadith, Good Hadith