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Joost is a question answering system for Dutch which makes extensive use of dependency relations. It answers questions either by table look-up, or by searching for answers in paragraphs returned by IR. Syntactic similarity is used to identify and rank potential answers. Tables were constructed by mining the CLEF corpus, which has been syntactically analyzed in full.
This research was carried out as part of the research program for Interactive Multimedia Information Extraction, imix, financed by nwo, the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research.
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Bouma, G., Mur, J., van Noord, G., van der Plas, L., Tiedemann, J. (2006). Question Answering for Dutch Using Dependency Relations. In: Peters, C., et al. Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories. CLEF 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11878773_42
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