Harnessing Multilingual Resources to Question Answering in Arabic

2022-05-16 · Khalid Alnajjar, Mika Hämäläinen

The goal of the paper is to predict answers to questions given a passage of Qur'an. The answers are always found in the passage, so the task of the model is to predict where an answer starts and where it ends. As the initial data set is rather small for training, we make use of multilingual BERT so that we can augment the training data by using data available for languages other than Arabic. Furthermore, we crawl a large Arabic corpus that is domain specific to religious discourse. Our approach consists of two steps, first we train a BERT model to predict a set of possible answers in a passage. Finally, we use another BERT based model to rank the candidate answers produced by the first BERT model.

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