M. Ghaly

What Makes a Good Fiqh Retriever? Answer Retrieval for Arabic Islamic Jurisprudence

This work builds a retrieval test collection for Arabic fiqh and uses it to evaluate dense, lexical, hybrid, fine-tuned, and madhhab-aware retrieval strategies, and presents an error analysis showing that the main challenge is distinguishing answer-bearing passages from topically similar passages that do not contain th...