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

Summary

The Inception Team presented a system for Semantic Question Similarity in Arabic as part of the NSURL 2019 Task 8. The system explores different methods for determining question similarity in Arabic. Their best result was an ensemble model using a pre-trained multilingual BERT model, achieving a 95.924% F1-Score and ranking first among nine participating teams. Why it matters: This demonstrates strong performance on a key Arabic NLP task, advancing the state-of-the-art in semantic understanding for the language.