# DTW at Qur'an QA 2022: Utilising Transfer Learning with Transformers for Question Answering in a Low-resource Domain

Source: [DTW at Qur'an QA 2022: Utilising Transfer Learning with Transformers for Question Answering in a Low-resource Domain](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c8a1e209131cea34989>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-26T00:13:46.432Z

Authors: Damith Premasiri, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Wajdi Zaghouani, Ruslan Mitkov

Published: 2022-05-12T11:17:23.000Z

## Abstract

The task of machine reading comprehension (MRC) is a useful benchmark to evaluate the natural language understanding of machines. It has gained popularity in the natural language processing (NLP) field mainly due to the large number of datasets released for many languages. However, the research in MRC has been understudied in several domains, including religious texts. The goal of the Qur'an QA 2022 shared task is to fill this gap by producing state-of-the-art question answering and reading comprehension research on Qur'an. This paper describes the DTW entry to the Quran QA 2022 shared task. Our methodology uses transfer learning to take advantage of available Arabic MRC data. We further improve the results using various ensemble learning strategies. Our approach provided a partial Reciprocal Rank (pRR) score of 0.49 on the test set, proving its strong performance on the task.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06025>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.06025.pdf>)