The Multi-Class Classification for the First Six Surats of the Holy Quran

The Holy Quran is one of the holy books revealed to the prophet Muhammad in the form of separate verses. These verses were written on tree leaves, stones, and bones during his life; as such, they were not arranged or grouped into one book until later. There is no intelligent system that is able to distinguish the verses of Quran chapters automatically. Accordingly, in this study we propose a model that can recognize and categorize Quran verses automatically and conclusion the essential features through Quran chapters classification for the first six Surat of the Holy Quran chapters, based on machine learning techniques. The classification of the Quran verses into chapters using machine learning classifiers is considered an intelligent task. Classification algorithms like Naïve Bayes, SVM, KNN, and decision tree J48 help to classify texts into categories or classes. The target of this research is using machine learning algorithms for the text classification of the Holy Quran verses. As the Quran texts consists of 114 chapters, we are only working with the first six chapters. In this paper, we build a multi-class classification model for the chapter names of the Quranic verses using Support Vector Classifier (SVC) and GaussianNB. The results show the best overall accuracy is 80% for the SVC and 60% for the Gaussian Naïve Bayes.

@article{Elmitwally2020,
  title     = {The Multi-Class Classification for the First Six Surats of the Holy Quran},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {11},
  number    = {1},
  year      = {2020},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Nouh Sabri Elmitwally and Ahmed Alsayat},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110141},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110141}
}