Approaches to Retrieve Verses of the Holy Quran Based on Full Meaning

Abstract

Most information retrieval researchers and specialists in NLP have focused on employing the concepts of the Holy Quran in their field of work as a step towards combining modern technology and the understanding of Quran itself. Retrieving information from the Holy Quran in response to a particular query has been considered to be a very significant field in research and analysis. Many researchers have found special search options to retrieve verses from the Holy Quran such as exact matching of query, query's stem matching, and query's synonyms matching based on certain thesauruses. In this study, the researchers adopt special search options for retrieving verses from the Holy Quran based on single-word queries according to the full meaning of the Quran's verses in addition to the meaning of the search query; in other words, the researchers in this study add the exact matching of search-query as a default search option in order to retrieve the verses that match the search query in a precise form. After that, the researchers also add query's synonyms matching as a search option to give the user the ability to add any synonym that can enhance the retrieval process. The synonyms selection is not based on a thesaurus but it just an additional search option that can aid in enhancing the Information retrieval process. In order to find the Quran verses that are related to the search query without including the word or its synonyms exactly, the researchers add new special search options based on the full meaning of the verses. These new search options are based on special indices for each verse in the Holy Quran about the topic of the verse and the explanation of its full meaning. The researchers select two books of the Holy Quran explanation that gives the full meaning of each verse; "Tafseer Klmat Al-Quran Tafseer w Bayan" and "Tafseer Al- Jalalayn".