i-ES: Islamic Extraction and Retrieval System to Support the Building of a Multilingual Domain Ontology to Enhance Knowledge Discovery Online

• Main Authors: S. Juhana, M. H. Siti Farhana, M. Evfi, A. Akmal, D. Jawiah, M.N. Shahrul Azman, O. Mohd Shahizan Othman, Z.A. Zaiha Nadiah
• Format: Conference Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Islamic extraction, retrieval system, multilingual, semantic.
• Online Access: http://ddms.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/6169

Rapid growth and success of information sources on the World Wide Web have made lnternet as an important source of data for the users. Internet has provided access to information in almost every domain including Islam. On the contrary, the high rate of increase in the size of web documents makes it more difficult for lnternet users to retrieve relevant websites. Although the Web contains a wealth of information, much of it is available in the form of unstructured document. The problem that needs to be addressed in searching Islamic information is the inability of users to access precise information due to problem in semantics and the absence of cross-reference that people could look up topics, whether they be in English, Arabic or Malay terms. In order to enable access to online Islamic information more precisely and easily, a system has been created to structure and store relevant information to a database. Islamic Extraction System (I-ES) is a web based Islamic extraction system that is developed on the realization that information extraction software (IE) has the potential to transfer relevant Islamic web content into a structured database. Information Extraction (IE) is an active area of research which is concerned with extracting information about typed of events, entities or relationships from textual data. Information extraction method is chosen to collect and integrate web Islamic sources and to input them into a database in a faster and efficient way. This study is concerned with automatic extraction of meta tag from the bodies of HTML documents (web pages). I-ES capabilities has enabled an ontology based Islamic semantic retrieval that can retrieve Islamic web documents in 3 different languages simultaneously through a multilingual search portal; create ontology that relate to Islam to enhance in use of exact vocabularies and implement the concept of semantic web and ontology for retrieving Islamic information precisely. This system not only assist acquisition on Islamic knowledge using word/phrase search but allows browsing through directory and an index that has semantic capability to enhance knowledge discovery online.