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We describe a method for modifying a monolingual English question answering system to allow it to accept French questions. Our method relies on a statistical translation engine to translate keywords, and a set of manually written rules for analyzing French questions. The additional steps performed by the cross-language system lower its performance by 28% compared to the original system.
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Plamondon, L., Foster, G. (2004). Quantum, a French/English Cross-Language Question Answering System. In: Peters, C., Gonzalo, J., Braschler, M., Kluck, M. (eds) Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems. CLEF 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30222-3_53
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