Creation of Arabic ontology for hadith science

Abstract

In the context of knowledge representation and sharing, the term ontology is used to mean a specification of conceptualization. An ontology of domain is a description of the concepts and relationships that can exist between them. This work is interested in the knowledge representation. It aims to create an Arabic ontology using a method which consists of two steps: the creation of the ontology's core and then its expansion using real questions and answers about Hadith science. The main objective of this paper is to build and implement an ontology for all concepts and main knowledge of Hadith Science. The collection of all necessary information is based on discussion with experts in the domain and from the famous books. The kernel of the ontology is created with Protégé. The result is an OWL/XML document. To develop the application of information extracting, we used java programming language and SqwrlAPI to ensure the scalability, interoperability and the reusability of resources and developed contents. All extracted information will be later used in several applications like Hadith graduation, judgment on the validity of Hadith, classification, etc.