An Arabic Natural Language Interface System for a Database of the Holy Quran

In the time being, the need for searching in the words, objects, subjects, and statistics of words and parts of the Holy Quran has grown rapidly concurrently with the grow of number of Moslems and the huge usage of smart mobiles, tablets and lab tops. Because, databases are used almost in all activities of our life, some DBs have been built to store information about words and surah of Quran. The need for accessing Quran DBs became very important and wide uses, which could be done through database applications or using SQL commands, directly from database site or indirectly by a special format through LAN or even through the WEB. Most of peoples are not experienced in SQL language, but they need to build SQL commands for their retrievals. The proposed system will translate their natural Arabic requests such as questions or imperative sentences into SQL commands to retrieve answers from a Quran DB. It will perform parsing and little morphological processes according to a sub set of Arabic context-free grammar rules to work as an interface layer between users and Database. Keywords—Natural Language Processing (NLP); Arabic Question Answering System; Morphology; Arabic Grammar; Database; SQL