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This paper presents “ALQASIM”, a question answering system that focuses on answer selection and validation. Our experiments have been conducted in the framework of the main task of QA4MRE @ CLEF 2013. ALQASIM uses a novel technique by analyzing the reading test documents instead of the questions, which leads to a promising performance of 0.31 accuracy and 0.36 C@1, without using the test-set background collections.
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Ezzeldin, A.M., Kholief, M.H., El-Sonbaty, Y. (2013). ALQASIM: Arabic Language Question Answer Selection in Machines. In: Forner, P., Müller, H., Paredes, R., Rosso, P., Stein, B. (eds) Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization. CLEF 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8138. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40802-1_12
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