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Literature Review of Arabic Question-Answering: Modeling, Generation, Experimentation and Performance Analysis

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Flexible Query Answering Systems 2015

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This study provides a comparative study of Arabic question-answering systems. It presents a review of the main approaches and emphasizes the different experimentations in Arabic. It attempts to describe and detail the recent increase in interest and progress in Arabic question-answering research. It compares already existing question-answering systems for this language. It reviews the various categories of proposed question-answering systems within a broader framework of several languages and Arabic. It projects the actual trends of researches in this area for improving the Arabic. Also, it suggests a performance analysis providing an in-depth review of Arabic question-answering, by first noting the characteristics of, and resources available for, Arabic proposed systems and then reviewing the main Arabic question-answering approaches.

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Management, 3018, Sfax, Tunisia

    Wided Bakari & Mahmoud Neji

  2. Aix-Marseille University, 13397, Marseille Cedex 20, France

    Patrice Bellot

  3. MIR@CL, Sfax, Tunisia

    Wided Bakari & Mahmoud Neji

  4. LSIS, Marseille, France

    Patrice Bellot

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  1. Dept. of Comm., Business & Info. Tech., Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

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  2. Dept. Computer Science, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

  3. Sys Res Intit of Polish Acad of Science, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

  4. Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Esbjerg, Denmark

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  5. Computer Science Department, University Milano-Biccoca, Milano, Italy

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  6. IRISA, University of Rennes I, Rennes, France

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  7. Dept. of Tele. & Info. Processing, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

    Guy De Tré

  8. Dept. of Comp. & Art. Int. Sci., University of Granada, Granada, Spain

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  9. Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

    Adnan Yazici

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Bakari, W., Bellot, P., Neji, M. (2016). Literature Review of Arabic Question-Answering: Modeling, Generation, Experimentation and Performance Analysis. In: Andreasen, T., et al. Flexible Query Answering Systems 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 400. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26154-6_25

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