Arabic Ontology Model for Financial Accounting

Ontologies have become core components of many large applications. It's part of the Semantic Web framework. Many disciplines now develop standardized ontologies that domain experts can use to share and annotate information in their fields. Arabic is still not well supported. Designing and developing Arabic Ontologies need more than what is provided by keyword-based and more than analysing the morphology and grammar of the traditional Arabic language A few works on Arabic Semantic Web applications are derived from the traditional Arabic language and not in the specialized science. However, available search engines supporting Arabic language are typically limited to keyword searches and do not take in consideration the underlying semantics of the content. In this research, we propose a model for representing Arabic financial accounting knowledge in the Computer Technology domain using Ontologies. This paper addresses an Arabic financial ontology and presents a methodology for creating ontologies based on declarative knowledge representation systems.