Priberam's question answering system in a cross-language environment

  • Authors:
  • Adán Cassan;Helena Figueira;André Martins;Afonso Mendes;Pedro Mendes;Cláudia Pinto;Daniel Vidal

  • 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;Priberam Informática, Lisboa, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • CLEF'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Cross-Language Evaluation Forum: evaluation of multilingual and multi-modal information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Following last year's participation in the monolingual question answering (QA) track of CLEF, where Priberam's QA system has achieved state-of-the-art results, this year we decided to take part in both Portuguese and Spanish monolingual tasks, as well as in two bilingual (Portuguese-Spanish and Spanish-Portuguese) tasks of QA@CLEF. This paper describes the improvements and changes implemented in Priberam's QA system since last CLEF participation, detailing the work involved in its cross-lingual extension and discussing the results of the runs submitted to evaluation.