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Answer Validation on English and Romanian Languages

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Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access (CLEF 2008)

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The present article describes the system built for the participation in the AVE 2008 track, stressing upon the new features added to the approach we had in the AVE 2007. The current version, while also based on the Textual Entailment system we built for the RTE-3 competition, adds and combines specific techniques used by Question Answering systems to improve answer classification. We outline the performance of this approach, presenting the high results obtained for both English and Romanian. Finally, we perform a critical analysis of the detected errors and propose the lines for future work.

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  1. UAIC: Faculty of Computer Science, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Romania

    Adrian Iftene & Alexandra Balahur

  2. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain

    Alexandra Balahur

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  1. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Carol Peters

  2. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Thomas Deselaers

  3. University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Nicola Ferro

  4. LSI-UNED, Madrid, Spain

    Julio Gonzalo  & Anselmo Peñas  & 

  5. Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Gareth J. F. Jones

  6. Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

    Mikko Kurimo

  7. University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany

    Thomas Mandl

  8. Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

    Vivien Petras

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Iftene, A., Balahur, A. (2009). Answer Validation on English and Romanian Languages. 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_53

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