cs.CLOct 8, 2026

ILM: An AI-Powered Storytelling Educational Tool

Authors: Suhaila Mohammed, Abdelaziz Serour, Allison Lahnala

Organizations: Department of Computing and Software, Faculty of Engineering McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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.

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