Link-based vs. content-based retrieval for question answering using wikipedia

  • Authors:
  • Sisay Fissaha Adafre;Valentin Jijkoun;Maarten De Rijke

  • Affiliations:
  • ISLA, University of Amsterdam;ISLA, University of Amsterdam;ISLA, University of Amsterdam

  • 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

We describe our participation in the WiQA 2006 pilot on question answering using Wikipedia, with a focus on comparing link-based vs content-based retrieval. Our system currently works for Dutch and English.