Abstract
Our second participation in CLEF-QA consited in six runs with Spanish as a target language. The source languages were Spanish, English an Italian. miraQA uses a simple representation of the question that is enriched with semantic information like typed Named Entities. Runs used different strategies for answer extraction and selection, achieving at best a 25’5% accuracy. The analysis of the errors suggests that improvements in answer selection are the most critical.
This work has been partially supported by the Spanish R+D National Plan, by means of the project RIMMEL Multilingual and Multimedia Information Retrieval, and its Evaluation), TIN2004-07588-C03-01.
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de Pablo-Sánchez, C., González-Ledesma, A., Martínez-Fernández, J.L., Guirao, J.M., Martínez, P., Moreno, A. (2006). MIRACLE’s Cross-Lingual Question Answering Experiments with Spanish as a Target Language. 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_54
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