Cross-cutting aspects of cross-language question answering systems
MLQA '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Question Answering
CLEF'04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Cross-Language Evaluation Forum: multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images
LCC's poweranswer at QA@CLEF 2006
CLEF'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Cross-Language Evaluation Forum: evaluation of multilingual and multi-modal information retrieval
Can click patterns across user's query logs predict answers to definition questions?
EACL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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The paper describes QUANTICO, a cross-language open domain factoid question answering system for German and English document collections. The main features of the system are: use of preemptive off-line document annotation with information like Named Entities, abbreviation-extension pairs and appositional constructions; use of online translation services for the crosslanguage scenarios; use of redundancy as an indicator of good answer candidates; selection of the best answers based on distance metrics defined over graph representations. The results of evaluating the system's performance by QA@CLEF 2008 were as follows: for the German-German run we achieved a best overall accuracy (ACC) of 37%; for the English-German run 14.5% (ACC); and for the German-English run 14% (ACC).