# Development of Yes/No Arabic Question Answering System

Source: [Development of Yes/No Arabic Question Answering System](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa60db1e209131ce9f1800>)

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Authors: Wafa N. Bdour, Natheer K. Gharaibeh

Published: 2013-02-22T18:59:06.000Z

## Abstract

Developing Question Answering systems has been one of the important research issues because it requires insights from a variety of disciplines,including,Artificial Intelligence,Information Retrieval, Information Extraction,Natural Language Processing, and Psychology.In this paper we realize a formal model for a lightweight semantic based open domain yes/no Arabic question answering system based on paragraph retrieval with variable length. We propose a constrained semantic representation. Using an explicit unification framework based on semantic similarities and query expansion synonyms and antonyms.This frequently improves the precision of the system. Employing the passage retrieval system achieves a better precision by retrieving more paragraphs that contain relevant answers to the question; It significantly reduces the amount of text to be processed by the system.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5675>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.5675.pdf>)