Finding similar questions in Arabic community question answering systems

Abstract EN

Community Question Answering (CQA) systems have become very popular recently.

People can obtain direct answers to their questions instead of browsing tens of documents as a result of searching on the Web.

Finding similar questions in CQA systems is one of the most important problems since it is possible that very similar questions might have been already answered.

Even though there is an extensive literature focusing on this problem, most of the studies are for only English.

There are very limited studies concerning Arabic CQA systems.

In this study, we investigate the performance of various retrieval models on finding similar questions problem for an Arabic CQA system.