WI '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
The affect of machine translation on the performance of Arabic-English QA system
MLQA '06 Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Question Answering
Answering questions with an n-gram based passage retrieval engine
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Language independent answer prediction from the web
FinTAL'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Advances in Natural Language Processing
A full data-driven system for multiple language question answering
CLEF'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Cross-Language Evalution Forum: accessing Multilingual Information Repositories
Question classification in spanish and portuguese
CICLing'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
Towards a multilingual QA system based on the web data redundancy
AWIC'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in Web Intelligence
A passage retrieval system for multilingual question answering
TSD'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
Language independent passage retrieval for question answering
MICAI'05 Proceedings of the 4th Mexican international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Question answering for spanish supported by lexical context annotation
CLEF'04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Cross-Language Evaluation Forum: multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images
Combining sources of evidence for recognition of relevant passages in texts
ISSADS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Advanced Distributed Systems
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Finding accurate information on the web has become a challenge due to the increment in the number of documents available on line. Current search engines retrieve relevant documents to general "often short" user queries, but fail extracting answers to simple factual questions in natural language. This paper presents the basis of a statistical question answering system capable to find answers to factual questions in Spanish language from the web. This approach is supported on data redundancy rather than on sophisticated linguistic analyses of either questions and candidate answers. Preliminary results show that it is feasible to find concise and accurate answers from the web to factual questions made in Spanish language. The study also concludes that the available Spanish documents in the web are redundant enough in order to apply statistical methods like those described in this document in order to provide better mechanisms for information access.