Enhanced Arabic Text Retrieval with Attentive Relevance Scoring

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23404v1
• Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:18:28 GMT
• Title: Enhanced Arabic Text Retrieval with Attentive Relevance Scoring
• Authors: Salah Eddine Bekhouche, Azeddine Benlamoudi, Yazid Bounab, Fadi Dornaika, Abdenour Hadid,
• Abstract summary: Arabic poses a particular challenge for natural language processing and information retrieval.<n>Despite the growing global significance of Arabic, it is still underrepresented in NLP research and benchmark resources.<n>We present an enhanced Dense Passage Retrieval framework developed specifically for Arabic.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Arabic poses a particular challenge for natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) due to its complex morphology, optional diacritics and the coexistence of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and various dialects. Despite the growing global significance of Arabic, it is still underrepresented in NLP research and benchmark resources. In this paper, we present an enhanced Dense Passage Retrieval (DPR) framework developed specifically for Arabic. At the core of our approach is a novel Attentive Relevance Scoring (ARS) that replaces standard interaction mechanisms with an adaptive scoring function that more effectively models the semantic relevance between questions and passages. Our method integrates pre-trained Arabic language models and architectural refinements to improve retrieval performance and significantly increase ranking accuracy when answering Arabic questions. The code is made publicly available at \href{https://github.com/Bekhouche/APR}{GitHub}.

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