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The Inception Team at NSURL-2019 Task 8: Semantic Question Similarity in Arabic

24 Apr 2020NSURL 2019 9arXiv:2004.11964archive 2025-07-28

Hana Al-Theiabat, Aisha Al-Sadi

This paper describes our method for the task of Semantic Question Similarity in Arabic in the workshop on NLP Solutions for Under-Resourced Languages (NSURL). The aim is to build a model that is able to detect similar semantic questions in the Arabic language for the provided dataset. Different methods of determining questions similarity are explored in this work. The proposed models achieved high F1-scores, which range from (88% to 96%). Our official best result is produced from the ensemble model of using a pre-trained multilingual BERT model with different random seeds with 95.924% F1-Score, which ranks the first among nine participants teams.

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Question Similarity

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Question Similarity Q2Q Arabic Benchmark Ensemble multilingual BERT model F1 score 0.95924 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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