An ontology for Juz' Amma based on expert knowledge

Abstract

This paper reports the development of an ontology for Juz' Amma in the Quran manuscript that is designed based on the contextual information support sourced from expert knowledge. The ontology development adopts an existing methology called the Methontology that covers steps from identifying motivation scenarios, formulating the competency questions, development, and evaluation. The ontology was evaluated based on the competency questions determined at the beginning of the development life cycle and the results were promising. The developed ontology is hoped to serve as the domain knowledge for other applications such as the question-answering, dialogue or expert systems.