Islamic inheritance calculation system based on Arabic ontology (AraFamOnto)

Abstract

Recently, a large number of automated applications are developed to improve the retrieval of different types of knowledge. However, there are few automated applications of semantic web technologies (ontology) for the retrieval of Islamic knowledge and in particular for Arabic language, despite the strong demand and need for this knowledge by Muslims and also by non-Muslims. In this paper, we present AraFamOnto, an Arabic ontology-based inheritance calculation system. The use of ontology is becoming increasingly important to store knowledge about the person's family relationships in order to facilitate research, the processing of information about the person and family members, and the calculation of the inheritance of the deceased person's heirs. We present a practical method to limit the time needed to process family data and reduce human effort in the search for family relationships to calculate the Islamic Inheritance correctly.