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This paper describes the Bulgarian part of a Bulgarian–English question answering system. The Bulgarian modules are implemented as a question analysis procedure within a Bulgarian question answering system — BulQA. The paper presents the available language resources and corresponding technology which is used for the analysis of the questions in Bulgarian and their translation into English format, which is necessary for answer extraction. CLaRK System is used as an implementation platform.
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Osenova, P., Simov, A., Simov, K., Tanev, H., Kouylekov, M. (2005). Bulgarian-English Question Answering: Adaptation of Language Resources. In: Peters, C., Clough, P., Gonzalo, J., Jones, G.J.F., Kluck, M., Magnini, B. (eds) Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images. CLEF 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3491. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11519645_45
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