Hessa Alawwad


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2023

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AHJL at Qur’an QA 2023 Shared Task: Enhancing Passage Retrieval using Sentence Transformer and Translation
Hessa Alawwad | Lujain Alawwad | Jamilah Alharbi | Abdullah Alharbi
Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023

The Holy Qur’an is central to Islam, influencing around two billion Muslims globally, and is known for its linguistic richness and complexity. This article discusses our involvement in the PR task (Task A) of the Qur’an QA 2023 Shared Task. We used two models: one employing the Sentence Transformer and the other using OpenAI’s embeddings for document retrieval. Both models, equipped with a translation feature, help interpret and understand Arabic language queries by translating them, executing the search, and then reverting the results to Arabic. Our results show that incorporating translation functionalities improves the performance in Arabic Question-Answering systems. The model with translation enhancement performed notably better in all metrics compared to the non-translation model.