Leveraging large language models for detecting and preserving emotions in quran translations
摘要
Over the years, translations of the Quran have served as a vital tool for conveying its message to non-Arabic speaking audiences. This research proposes a computational quantitative approach to investigate emotion preservation in English translations of the Quran using Large Language Models (LLMs). The proposed approach implements emotion analysis using the state-of-the-art models and evaluates the agreement levels through a human validation process, using a parallel corpus of the Quran with seven English translations. This research yields the Emotionally-Labeled Quran Verses (ELQV) dataset, a collection of 2100 Quran verses annotated by specialists, designed to advance Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly NLP-based Quranic research. The analysis demonstrates that the investigated translations preserved the emotional semantics at a fair level. Compared to the Quran, neither of the translations reached substantial agreement with Arabic readers, with Cohen’s Kappa (