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QUASAR: The Question Answering System of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

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Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories (CLEF 2005)

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This paper describes the QUASAR Question Answering Information System developed by the RFIA group at the Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación of the Universidad Politécnica of Valencia for the 2005 edition of the CLEF Question Answering exercise. We participated in three monolingual tasks: Spanish, Italian and French, and in two cross-language tasks: Spanish to English and English to Spanish. Since this was our first participation, we focused our work on the passage-based search engine while using simple pattern matching rules for the Answer Extraction phase. As regards the cross-language tasks, we had to resort to the most common web translation tools.

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Gómez-Soriano, J.M., Buscaldi, D., Asensi, E.B., Rosso, P., Arnal, E.S. (2006). QUASAR: The Question Answering System of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. 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_49

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