Evaluation Criteria for Computational Quran Search

Abstract

This paper reviews search tools constructed for Information Retrieval from the Holy Quran. This paper evaluates these different search tools against 13 criteria depending on: search features, output features, precision of the retrieved verses, recall database size and types of database contents. Based on this survey, we conclude that most of the existing Quran search tools still cannot solve the problem of ambiguity in the retrieved results because these tools use traditional query analysis and make limited usage of Quran ontologies.