IIFRS: INTELLIGENT ISLAMIC FATAWA RETRIEVAL SYSTEM

This paper proposes an agent-based system for information retrieval based on ontology and applied on Islamic Feqh Fatawa (IFF). The IFF retrieval agents assess the input IFF text from two paths, the first path is a historical completed fatwa text, and the second is an online user fatwa query. IFF retrieval agents use the ontological knowledge that supports Information Extraction (IE) in particular with concepts, propositions, unifiers and paraphrases. Sentences of Islamic Fatawa are annotated with ontology propositions that recognize an instance of their content. Distributing ontology-based IE to agents enables parallel processing and eases tracking of decisions and their explanation to users. The system is implemented as a desk top application and many case studies are considered to show its feasibility and the advantages of using ontology representing the semantic of Islamic Fatwa. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) for Islamic Fatwa is also proposed.