An LMF-based Normalization approach of Arabic Islamic dictionaries for Arabic Word Sense Disambiguation: application on hadith

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an approach for normalizing Arabic Dictionaries. This approach is used to transform non structured Arabic dictionaries into LMF (Lexical Markup Framework) based-normalized ones. We are basically exploiting Arabic Islamic dictionaries of hadith. An ontology will be then constructed from these normalized dictionaries. This ontology will contain explicit and formal knowledge about information in hadith. It will be used later by an information retrieval system for Word Sense Disambiguation of Arabic terms of hadith either in the formulated user query or in the texts of hadith.