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TCE at IslamicEval 2025: Retrieval-Augmented LLMs for Quranic and Hadith Content Identification and Verification

Published in ArabicNLP2025 (EMNLP2025), IslamicEval 2025, 2025

Presented at ArabicNLP2025 conference, co-held with EMNLP2025. This work proposes a framework to detect and cross-check religious content in generated Arabic text, achieving 86.11% accuracy for segment detection and 89.82% accuracy in content verification from authoritative sources.

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Diagnosing and Addressing Pitfalls in KG-RAG Datasets: Toward More Reliable Benchmarking

Published in NeurIPS 2025 Proceedings, Datasets and Benchmarks Track, 2025

Published in NeurIPS 2025 Proceedings, Datasets and Benchmarks Track. This work addresses key challenges in KGQA datasets and proposes a universal framework leveraging LLMs to automatically create high-quality benchmarks for KGQA.

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Improving Ranking-based Question Answering with Weak Supervision for Low-Resource Qur’anic Texts

Published in Artificial Intelligence Review Springer Journal, 2024

This work introduces, among other findings, a novel weakly supervised learning mechanism tailored for ranking-based question answering over the Holy Qur’an. 👉 Paper Link (Open access) 🔗

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TCE at Qur’an QA 2023 Shared Task: Low Resource Enhanced Transformer-based Ensemble Approach for Qur’anic QA

Published in ArabicNLP Conference (EMNLP), 2023

This work was my submission to Qur'an QA 2023 Shared Task, which, hopefully, got the performance First place award 🥇 in both sub-tasks of Quran QA shared-task 2023 👉 Competition Official Page 🔗

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TCE at Qur’an QA 2022: Arabic Language Question Answering Over Holy Qur’an Using a Post-Processed Ensemble of BERT-based Models

Published in OSACT workshop (LREC), 2022

My submission to Qur'an QA 2022 Shared Task, which received the First place 🥇 performance award. 👉 Competition Official Page 🔗

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Mohammed Elkoumy

Publications 📃

TCE at IslamicEval 2025: Retrieval-Augmented LLMs for Quranic and Hadith Content Identification and Verification

Diagnosing and Addressing Pitfalls in KG-RAG Datasets: Toward More Reliable Benchmarking

Improving Ranking-based Question Answering with Weak Supervision for Low-Resource Qur’anic Texts

TCE at Qur’an QA 2023 Shared Task: Low Resource Enhanced Transformer-based Ensemble Approach for Qur’anic QA

TCE at Qur’an QA 2022: Arabic Language Question Answering Over Holy Qur’an Using a Post-Processed Ensemble of BERT-based Models