The noble quran Arabic ontology: Domain ontological model and evaluation of human and social relations

Abstract

Recently, Arab and Muslim researchers have given a great attention to retrieve information and search about knowledge in the noble Quran. During the past years a lot of websites and applications offered a number of methods to search throughout the noble Quran, some offered a syntactic search, others offered a semantic search and some others offered both. The noble Quran has a special style and metaphorical nature. Furthermore, the Arabic language of the noble Quran has a complicated structure that needs an exceptional extra attention on the issues of searching as well as information retrieval rather than English or any other language. This paper proposes a new ontological modeling that models the human social relations in the noble Quran by employing Web Ontology Language (OWL) as well as Resource Description Framework (RDF). This paper methodology involves a descriptive identification of the human relations related concepts that are described in the Noble Quran with identifying the relations among them. The concept ontological model, in this work, mainly built to support Arabic, ArabEzi (popular chat language) and English languages. As a result, SPARQL queries and DL queries are used in the ontology model to retrieve Quran domains, concepts and Verses in Arabic language. Hence, this work will help in the noble Quran searching and retrieving information.