Help me ask Sakhr Corp a favor
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Salam Brother Layth, Bothers and Sisters,
I am requesting help from the group to request an Arab corporation to help us...
Sakhr, <http//www.sakhr.com/>, located in Egypt, has unique and cutting edge Arabic processing computer software. The one I am interested in is called Sakhr's MMMP is a morphological analyzer-synthesizer. and is described here <http//www.sakhr.com/Sakhr_e/Technology/Morphology.htm?Index=5&Main=Technology&Sub=Morphology>.
This technology is what is used behind this Quran search engine <http//quran.al-islam.com//arb/>
You can search for the word "rassala", "to send", which you'd enter in Arabic, and it would locate all occurrences of the word and all its derivatives and display all the verses... well, not quite.
The results of any search you do are always limited to 200. It will show the total results, but the display will end at the 200ths result. I asked them to remove the limitation a while ago, maybe a year or two ago, and they responded that they will look into it... but never did.
So, what I am asking for is a letter from free-minds, a petition maybe, to ask them to remove the limitation.
Now, one could ask for even more... If we could obtain the actual technology itself we could use it in our search engines and Quran web-tools, for use by all, none-profit. Maybe we could try to ask for that as well, a special offer, special agreement that free-minds, or Layth, or myself would sign, to use the technology according to their requirements, to protect their interests, but still allow us to provide the powerful tools that could be built with it to man kind.
Am I making sense? I was about to email them another private request when I remembered free-minds, why not have an organization ask instead of one individual.
The only other Arabic Morphological Analyzer I could find is <http//www.xrce.xerox.com/competencies/content-analysis/arabic/>. which is available for commercial use, but is far less comprehensive than Sakhr's.
Thanks.
Peace,
Mohamed~