Building Standard Dataset for Quran Tafseer

The growing number of scholars and students of the Quran Tafseer and its science has led to the increase of computer-based researches. Additionally, the evaluation of these researches requires computer-based experiments to be performed with a real Quran Tafseer documents. The available Tafseer documents are in text file or image file and are in Arabic language whereas the majority of the computer programming is in English language. Furthermore, the researchers will have difficulty to compare their research with other researchers. Therefore, the requirement for standard Tafseer dataset is very necessary for the current researches. This paper proposed a Tafseer dataset that will be used by researchers in Quran Tafseer and information processing fields. The dataset is organized in XML format to provide simple access and usage from the computer applications. A computer program is developed to create the dataset in XML structure. By applying the XML language computer applications users will be able to access the dataset and manipulate the content in easily.