A knowledge-based approach to facilitate queries by hajj pilgrims

Sulaiman, Shahida; Mohamed, Hasimah Hj; Arshad, Muhammad; Ahmad, Anees; Sulaiman, Sarina

doi:10.1109/itsim.2008.4631665

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“…Actually, this project is composed of two initiatives, a recommendation system to verify if the video belongs to a specific topic, and a database sorting mechanism. Also, a knowledge-based expert system to ease the process of answering the questions during Hajj has been proposed in the literature [121]. The idea is to install kiosks in various locations in the sacred places to facilitate the question-and-answer process.…”

Section: Expert Systems and Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Solving Hajj and Umrah Challenges Using Information and Communication Technology: A Survey

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2022

IEEE Access

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Hajj and Umrah are Muslims' religious pilgrimages to Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Hajj is considered the largest annual gathering in the world. In Islam, each and every able-bodied adult is obligated to go for Hajj at least once in his/her lifetime. Hajj takes place between the 8 th and the 13 th day of Dhul Hijjah, which is the last month of the Islamic year while Umrah, the minor pilgrimage, could be done any time of the year. In Hajj, pilgrims, also known as Hajjis, travel around 15 km and pilgrims have the choice to do it by foot, bus or by train. The Hajj journey starts from Mina, which is considered the largest tent city in the world because it hosts more than 10,000 fire resistant tents, and includes various religious rituals. Around 3 million Muslims from more than 183 countries make Hajj every year and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is working on increasing this number. Since 1989, researchers in various ICT domains have tried leveraging their expertise in solving challenges and issues related to Hajj and Umrah. Although several papers have surveyed efforts using technology in Hajj and Umrah research, none of them was comprehensive. In this paper, I classified research efforts that used information and communication technologies for solving Hajj and Umrah challenges over the past 33 years based on their applications in 10 categories. I also identified more than 30 technologies used by researchers all over the world to address Hajj and Umrah issues and group research efforts based on these technologies for ease of access. Furthermore, open challenges were discussed and new technologies that could be used to address these challenges were proposed.

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Section: Expert Systems and Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Solving Hajj and Umrah Challenges Using Information and Communication Technology: A Survey

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2022

IEEE Access

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“…Rule-based expert system (RBES) is one of the oldest knowledge-based techniques that have a good reputation when applied in several sub-domain problems including medical diagnosis , QA and FQA [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49].…”

Section: Rule-based Expert System (Rbes)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As an example; Suliman et al, [49] adopt the RBES in FQA to answer hajj pilgrim"s questions during hajj rituals. Rules are being used to represent the knowledge and the answers are concluded by inference engine after examining Knowledge-base using forward chaining.…”

Section: Rule-based Expert System (Rbes)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rules are being used to represent the knowledge and the answers are concluded by inference engine after examining Knowledge-base using forward chaining. Although the model is a web-based prototype, it did not support natural language query interface [49].…”

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“…Although RBES is stable and reduce cost and risk, and its good performance in Fatwa QA, there is no easy way to be applied in multiple Fatwa domains due to the challenges of knowledge acquisition and interpretation [49].…”

Section: Rule-based Expert System (Rbes)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Semantic-based Arabic Question Answering: Core and Recent Techniques

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Rshwan²

2017

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Providing the right answer remains a hot research field in Question Answering (QA). Considerable improvements in QA performance were obtained by adopting core semantic techniques like WordNet. However, an ideal adoption of such technique in Arabic QA is quite challenging, particularly for Fatwa QA which answers questions in Islamic religion domain. The point of this review is to overview the state of the art Arabic Fatwa QA models with a focus on the core and recent semantic representation techniques and present a comparative summary that involves QA paradigms, semantic techniques, performance, scope, and limitations. The Aim is to highlight the new directions and open issues regarding the challenges for answering Arabic Fatwa questions on semantics basis. Recent semantic techniques like "Skip-Gram/CBOW" NN embeddings revealed a promising performance compared to a core technique "Ontology" when adopted in some tasks of Arabic Fatwa QA.

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