Qur'an QA 2023 Shared Task!

This repository contains GYM's submission to Qur'an QA 2023 shared task, which has two tasks.

• Task A: Passage Retrieval (PR) task -- given a question, find all Qur'anic passages that have potential answers.
• Task B: Reading Comprehension (RC) task -- given a question and a qur'anic passage, find all answers to the question.

Poster

• Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2023.arabicnlp-1.79/
• Presentation: https://github.com/ghazaleh-mahmoodi/Quran-QA_2023_Shared-Task/blob/main/GYM_ArabicNLP%20Presentation.pdf

How to cite

@inproceedings{mahmoudi-etal-2023-gym,
    title = "{GYM} at Qur{'}an {QA} 2023 Shared Task: Multi-Task Transfer Learning for {Q}uranic Passage Retrieval and Question Answering with Large Language Models",
    author = "Mahmoudi, Ghazaleh  and Morshedzadeh, Yeganeh  and Eetemadi, Sauleh",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2023",
    month = dec,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Singapore (Hybrid)",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.arabicnlp-1.79",
    pages = "714--719",
}

References

• Malhas, R., 2023. Arabic Question Answering on the Holy Qur'an (Doctoral dissertation).
• Malhas, R. and Elsayed, T., 2020. AyaTEC: Building a Reusable Verse-based Test Collection for Arabic Question Answering on the holy qur’an. ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 19(6), pp.1-21.
• Swar, M. N.,2007. Mushaf Al-Tafseel Al-Mawdoo’ee. Damascus: Dar Al-Fajr Al-Islami.