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Al-Jawaab at Qur’an QA 2023 Shared Task: Exploring Embeddings and GPT Models for Passage Retrieval and Reading Comprehension
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This paper introduces a comprehensive system designed to address two natural language processing tasks: Passage Retrieval (Task A) and Reading Comprehension (Task B), applied to datasets related to the Holy Qur'an.Task A was treated as a measurement of a textual similarity problem where the system leverages OpenAI's "text-embedding-ada-002" embedding model to transform textual content into numerical representations, with cosine similarity serving as the proximity metric.Task B focuses on the extraction of answers from Qur'anic passages, employing the Generative Pre-trained Transformer-4 (GPT-4) language model.In Task A, the system is evaluated using the Mean Average Precision (MAP) metric, achieving MAP scores of 0.109438 and 0.06426543057 on the development and test datasets with an optimal similarity threshold set at 0.85.Task B evaluation employs partial Average Precision (pAP), where our system surpasses a baseline whole-passage retriever with pAP scores of 0.470 and 0.5393130538 on the development and test datasets, respectively.Holy Qur'an, passage retrieval, reading comprehensive, embeddings
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“…Passage Retrieval (i.e., the task of identifying and ranking candidate passages that potentially contain answers to a given question), have become a matter of paramount importance (Malhas et al., 2022) and presents unique and significant challenges (Malhas et al., 2022; Zekiye and Amroush, 2023).”
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- Zekiye, A., & Amroush, F.
- ORCID
- Zekiye, Abdulrezzak
- Venue
- Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023
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- 2023
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- 743-747
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- W4389518324
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- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2024: 2
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- 0.71
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- conference paper
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- en
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- Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Keywords
- Quran, passage retrieval, reading comprehension, answer extraction, embeddings, cosine similarity, GPT-4, text similarity
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