A Question Classification is an important task in Question Answering Systems and Information Retrieval among other NLP systems. Given a question, the aim of Question Classification is to find the correct type of answer for it. The focus of this paper is on Arabic question classification. We present a novel approach that combines a Support Vector Machine (SVM) and a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). This method works in two stages: in the first stage, we identify the coarse/main question class using an SVM model; in the second stage, for each coarse question class returned by the SVM model, a CNN model is used to predict the subclass (finer class) of the main class. The performed tests have shown that our approach to Arabic Questions Classification yields very promising results.
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Aouichat, A., Hadj Ameur, M. S., & Geussoum, A. (2018). Arabic question classification using support vector machines and convolutional neural networks. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10859 LNCS, pp. 113–125). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91947-8_12
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