A Preliminary Study for Building an Arabic Corpus of Pair Questions-texts from the Web: AQA-WebCorp

Authors

  • Wided Bakari
  • Patrice Bellot
  • Mahmoud Neji

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijes.v4i2.5345

Abstract


With the development of electronic media and the heterogeneity of Arabic data on the Web, the idea of building a clean corpus for certain applications of natural language processing, including machine translation, information retrieval, question answer, become more and more pressing. In this manuscript, we seek to create and develop our own corpus of pair’s questions-texts. This constitution then will provide a better base for our experimentation step. Thus, we try to model this constitution by a method for Arabic insofar as it recovers texts from the web that could prove to be answers to our factual questions. To do this, we had to develop a java script that can extract from a given query a list of html pages. Then clean these pages to the extent of having a data base of texts and a corpus of pair’s question-texts. In addition, we give preliminary results of our proposal method. Some investigations for the construction of Arabic corpus are also presented in this document.

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Published

2016-07-05

How to Cite

Bakari, W., Bellot, P., & Neji, M. (2016). A Preliminary Study for Building an Arabic Corpus of Pair Questions-texts from the Web: AQA-WebCorp. International Journal of Recent Contributions from Engineering, Science & IT (iJES), 4(2), pp. 38–45. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijes.v4i2.5345

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Papers

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