Abstract Background Question Answering (QA) systems enable users to retrieve exact
answers for questions posed in natural language. Objective This study aims at identifying …

The advent of Question Answering Systems (QASs) has been envisaged as a promising
solution and an efficient approach for retrieving significant information over the Internet. A …

Question answering is a subfield of information retrieval. It is a task of answering a question
posted in a natural language. A question answering system (QAS) may be considered a …

The absence of publicly available reusable test collections for Arabic question answering on
the Holy Qur'an has impeded the possibility of fairly comparing the performance of systems …

The Qur'an is a fourteen centuries old divine book in Arabic language that is read and
followed by almost two billion Muslims globally as their sacred religious text. With the rise of …

Recently, significant advancements were achieved in Question Answering (QA) systems in
several languages. However, QA systems in the Arabic language require further research …

The ultimate goal of labelling a Quranic verse is to determine its corresponding theme.
However, the existing Quranic verse labelling approach is primarily depending on the …

Semantic similarity analysis in natural language texts is getting great attention recently.
Semantic analysis of the Quran is especially challenging because it is not simply factual but …

For many users of natural language processing (NLP), it can be challenging to obtain
concise, accurate and precise answers to a question. Systems such as question answering …

Abstract Question Answering System has the ability to present an answer based on a
question submitted by the user in natural languages. This system consists of question …