Al-Quran ontology based on knowledge themes

Abstract

Islamic knowledge is gathered through the understanding the Al-Quran. It requires ontology which can capture the knowledge and present it in a machine readable structured. However, current ontology approaches is irrelevant and inaccuracy in producing true concepts of Al-Quran knowledge, because it used traditional methods that only define the concepts of knowledge without connecting to a related theme of knowledge. The themes of knowledge are important to provide true meaning and explanation of Al-Quran knowledge classification. The main aims of this paper are to demonstrate the development of ontology Al-Quran and method used for searching the Al-Quran knowledge using the semantic search approach. Expert review has been applied to validate the ontology model and evaluate the relevance and precision of searching results.

Arabic Natural Language Processing for Qur’anic Research: A Systematic Review

“…The ontology approach is also adopted by Ta'a et al [39] but it is more user friendly. Instead of performing some syntax based queries, a graphical user interface allows user to select a particular topic or theme and two sub themes from drop down menus.…”

“…Protégé-OWL itself is developed in Java. This technology has been utilized by Ta'a et al [39] in development of ontology for the Qur'an. Since it is an open source tool, it can be helpful in developing conceptual search system based on ontology.…”

Arabic Natural Language Processing for Qur’anic Research: A Systematic Review

“…Ta'a et al [39] also developed theme based ontology named as Al-Quran to perform the semantic queries. Ontology is developed using Protégé-OWL.…”

Ontological Methodologies for Counselling Intervention: Do’a and Zikr Al-Mā’thur Corpus

“…In the research executed by Ta'a et al the researchers demonstrated the ontology of Al-Quran and implemented a method used for retrieving the Quranic knowledge via the semantic search approach (43,44). On the other hand, a research by Almeida, Roche, and Costa (45) and Almeida and Costa (46) emphasised on the significance of the Islamic artefacts and archaeology in the built ontology, namely OntoAndalus.…”