MIRACLE’s cross-lingual question answering experiments with spanish as a target language

  • Authors:
  • César de Pablo-Sánchez;Ana González-Ledesma;José Luis Martínez-Fernández;José María Guirao;Paloma Martínez;Antonio Moreno

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid;Universidad Autónoma de Madrid;Universidad Carlos III de Madrid;Universidad de Granada;Universidad Carlos III de Madrid;Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

  • 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

Our second participation in CLEF-QA consited in six runs with Spanish as a target language. The source languages were Spanish, English an Italian. miraQA uses a simple representation of the question that is enriched with semantic information like typed Named Entities. Runs used different strategies for answer extraction and selection, achieving at best a 25’5% accuracy. The analysis of the errors suggests that improvements in answer selection are the most critical.