Priberam’s question answering system for portuguese

  • Authors:
  • Carlos Amaral;Helena Figueira;André Martins;Afonso Mendes;Pedro Mendes;Cláudia Pinto

  • Affiliations:
  • Priberam Informática, Lisboa, Portugal;Priberam Informática, Lisboa, Portugal;Priberam Informática, Lisboa, Portugal;Priberam Informática, Lisboa, Portugal;Priberam Informática, Lisboa, Portugal;Priberam Informática, Lisboa, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • CLEF'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Cross-Language Evalution Forum: accessing Multilingual Information Repositories
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper describes the work done by Priberam in the development of a question answering (QA) system for Portuguese. The system was built using the company’s natural language processing (NLP) workbench and information retrieval technology. Special focus is given to question analysis, document and sentence retrieval, as well as answer extraction stages. The paper discusses the system’s performance in the context of the QA@CLEF 2005 evaluation.