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This paper describes the experience of QAST 2008, the second time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Five sites submitted results for at least one of the five scenarios (lectures in English, meetings in English, broadcast news in French and European Parliament debates in English and Spanish). In order to assess the impact of potential errors of automatic speech recognition, for each task contrastive conditions are with manual and automatically produced transcripts. The QAST 2008 evaluation framework is described, along with descriptions of the five scenarios and their associated data, the system submissions for this pilot track and the official evaluation results.
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Turmo, J., Comas, P.R., Rosset, S., Lamel, L., Moreau, N., Mostefa, D. (2009). Overview of QAST 2008. In: Peters, C., et al. Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access. CLEF 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5706. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04447-2_36
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