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This paper presents QA@L2F, the question-answering system developed at L2F, INESC-ID. QA@L2F follows different strategies according with the question type, and relies strongly on named entity recognition and on the pre-detection of linguistic patterns. Each question type is mapped into a single strategy; however, if no answer is found, the system proceeds and tries to find an answer using one of the other strategies.
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Mendes, A., Coheur, L., Mamede, N.J., Ribeiro, R., Batista, F., de Matos, D.M. (2008). QA@L2F, First Steps at QA@CLEF. In: Peters, C., et al. Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval. CLEF 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5152. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85760-0_45
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