Question-Response System Using the NooJ Linguistic Platform

Recent Developments in Arabic Conversational AI: A Literature Review

“…Regarding the domain of QA systems, most research is focused on the medical domain due to the large amount of Arabic language medical data available on the internet [22], [23], [24]. Other works have addressed open-domain QA systems [18], [25], [26].…”

“…In rule-based approaches to QA, some rules are applied to the given question and the passages that contain the answer to identify accurate answers. As outlined by several studies [22], [23], [24], the authors used the rule-based approach and developed their QA systems using the NooJ linguistic platform 1 . NooJ is a corpus processing system that constructs, tests, and manages formal descriptions in the form of automated dictionaries and grammars in multiple natural languages [23].…”

“…As outlined by several studies [22], [23], [24], the authors used the rule-based approach and developed their QA systems using the NooJ linguistic platform 1 . NooJ is a corpus processing system that constructs, tests, and manages formal descriptions in the form of automated dictionaries and grammars in multiple natural languages [23]. E. Bessaies et al [22] focused on yes/no and factual questions.…”

“…The approach of this study cannot process some types of questions, such as "why" and "how" questions. In addition, I. Ennasri et al proposed a system based on two steps [23]. The first step is the identification of the question type and keywords in order to determine the minimum number of responses.…”

“…The system focused on factual as well as complex questions such as "why" and "how" questions. The major limitation of the previous studies is that they are limited to specific terms, as they employed a rulebased approach and used many dictionaries [22], [23], [24]. To serve the same goal of building a QA system, M. Mtibaa et al tackled the issue of Arabic temporal QA systems.…”