An Ontological Approach towards Dialoguebased Information Visualization System: Quran Corpus for Juz' Amma

Mohd Amin Mohd Yunus,Rizwan Iqbal,Noor Azah Samsudin,Aida Mustapha,M.N Nik Hisyamudin,I Mohd Rasidi,I Al Emran,K Amir,M Sofian,M.B Mohd Faizal,Z Izzuddin,T.A Ahmad Mubarak,Md J Mohd Azlis Sani

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201713500070

Abstract

This paper presents a corpus that offers rich and authentic knowledge for Juz' Amma using the ontological engineering approach. The reason of the study conducted is because of lack of understanding of Juz' Amma in the form of listing result. At the same time, the listing result does not provide pictorial tidings for clustering the listing result. Therefore, the corpus covers knowledge from various authentic sources, including translation, annotation of keywords, tafsir, and related hadiths for every verse in English and Malay. The ontology is engineered and designed to effectively utilize the authentic knowledge extracted from the corpus intended to serve a dialogue-based information visualization system for Quranic text. A standard ontology engineering methodology was applied for developing the ontology. After creation, the ontology was evaluated and was found to fulfill the goals for which it was developed. The corpus and ontology are hoped to aid various semantic applications related to Quranic text in the future.

Highlights

With regards to studies in the Quranic text, most religious scholars agree that contextual information is considered mandatory for correct interpretation of the Quranic verses
Competency questions for Quran ontology were converted into their equivalent queries in the form of Description Logic
All the knowledge in this corpus is based on authentic knowledge extracted from various authentic sources

Summary

Introduction

With regards to studies in the Quranic text, most religious scholars agree that contextual information is considered mandatory for correct interpretation of the Quranic verses. Quranic exegeses (tafsir) greatly and facilitate understanding by providing correct interpretation and meaning of the verses. The tafsir is not verse-based of word-to-word translation. It is a lengthy and detailed explanation of the verses that may span from a few sentences to a full paragraph. Hadith may become a potential source for providing keen understanding to the true meaning of some verses. Hadiths are the sayings or oral traditions related to the words and acts by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

Objectives

Discussion

Conclusion