Abstract—The Holy Quran, due to its unique style and
allegorical nature, needs special attention about search and
information retrieval issues. Many works have been done to
accomplish keyword search from Holy Quran. The main
problem in all these works is that these are either static or they
does not provide us semantic search. In this paper, we propose
that the concepts of ontology of semantic web can be applied for
carrying out semantic search in Holy Quran. For this purpose,
exploratory search have been done from semantic web field of
knowledge. The sample domain ontology, based on living
creatures including animals and birds mentioned in Holy
Quran, has been developed in protégé ontology editor tool.
SPARQL Queries have been run to depict the proper role of
ontology. Then certain recommendation for the project of
attaining semantic search from all domains and resultantly all
text of Holy Quran has been proposed. These recommendations
include model and framework including creation of Quranic
WordNet, integration, merging and mapping of domain
ontologies under the umbrella of upper ontology. This work can
be extended to other Islamic knowledge sources like Hadith,
Fiqh etc.
Index Terms—Framework, information retrieval, ontology,
semantic search.
The authors are with the Department of Computer Science and Software
Engineering, International Islamic University, Islamabad (e-mail:
Hikmat_niazi@yahoo.com, Syed.Saqlian@iiu.edu.pk,
shoaibishaaqiiu@yahoo.com, m.sher@iiu.edu.pk).
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Cite:Hikmat Ullah Khan, Syed Muhammad Saqlain, Muhammad Shoaib, and Muhammad Sher, "Ontology Based Semantic Search in Holy Quran," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 570-575, 2013.
