Recent Advances and Challenges of Arabic Why Question Answering Systems

Abstract

Arabic Question Answering Systems have gaining a remarkable significance through the increasing amount of the Arabic contents in the Internet and the growing demand for precise answers which cannot be offered by the regular information retrieval techniques. As the amount of research in Arabic Question Answering system is behind when it is compared to other languages, and handling non-factoid QASs is the not-trivial task in Natural Language Processing (NLP), it's not surprising that few researches built Arabic why question answering (whyQA) systems. This paper addresses the main challenges and gaps analysis for Arabic whyQA systems, and some future trends have been mentioned for the guidance of the new research in that area.