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Ilm combines knowledge graphs and ai to teach islamic stories interactively

ILM: An AI-Powered Storytelling Educational Tool

Abstract: Digital technologies have made Islamic narratives more accessible, but existing platforms provide limited support for structured learning and comprehension of these stories, particularly in Arabic and multilingual settings. We present ILM, an interactive educational platform for Stories of the Prophets that combines Arabic natural language processing, structured knowledge representation, and retrieval-based question generation. Admin-approved Arabic narratives are processed by a Knowledge Graph (KG) Constructor Engine that identifies entities and narrative relationships and stores them as structured knowledge, enabling learners to explore stories through a visual story map and answer entity- and relation-based questions generated from the KG. Separately, a multilingual retrieval pipeline retrieves relevant passages from the original narratives to generate multiple-choice and open-ended comprehension questions. For open-ended questions, an LLM-as-a-Judge evaluates learners' answers against the retrieved passages and reference answers to determine correctness. The platform also incorporates Quranic content as a separate enrichment layer, allowing selected narratives to be supplemented with source-supported information. By combining structured knowledge with passage-based retrieval, ILM supports narrative exploration, comprehension, and assessment across Arabic and multilingual content. The system demonstrates the feasibility of combining structured knowledge representation and retrieval-based generation to support interactive learning of Islamic narratives. A demo is available at anonymous.4open.science/r/mml-5FCF.

Thu 8 OctComputation and Language
The gist
Many digital tools make Islamic stories easier to find but don't help learners understand or explore them deeply, especially in Arabic and multiple languages. The authors created ILM, a platform that breaks down stories into pieces called knowledge graphs, helping learners see relationships through visual maps and answer questions about the stories. It also uses AI to generate multiple-choice and open-ended questions and to check if learners' answers are correct. By mixing structured story details with text searches, ILM supports different ways to learn and check understanding of Islamic narratives.
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