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GYM at Qur’an QA 2023 Shared Task: Multi-Task Transfer Learning for Quranic Passage Retrieval and Question Answering with Large Language Models

7 Dec 2023ArabicNLP at EMNLP 2023archive 2025-07-28

Ghazaleh Mahmoudi, Yeganeh Morshedzadeh, Sauleh Eetemadi

This work addresses the challenges of question answering for vintage texts like the Quran. It introduces two tasks: passage retrieval and reading comprehension. For passage retrieval, it employs unsupervised fine-tuning sentence encoders and supervised multi-task learning. In reading comprehension, it fine-tunes an Electra-based model, demonstrating significant improvements over baseline models. Our best AraElectra model achieves 46.1% partial Average Precision (pAP) on the unseen test set, outperforming the baseline by 23%.

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Multi-Task LearningPassage RetrievalQuestion AnsweringReading ComprehensionRetrievalSentenceTransfer Learning

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