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LREC
2008
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The QALL-ME Benchmark: a Multilingual Resource of Annotated Spoken Requests for Question Answering
This paper presents the QALL-ME benchmark, a multilingual resource of annotated spoken requests in the tourism domain, freely available for research purposes. The languages curren...
Elena Cabrio, Milen Kouylekov, Bernardo Magnini, M...
LREC
2010
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Speech Grammars for Textual Entailment Patterns in Multimodal Question Answering
Over the last several years, speech-based question answering (QA) has become very popular in contrast to pure search engine based approaches on a desktop. Open-domain QA systems a...
Daniel Sonntag, Bogdan Sacaleanu
LREC
2010
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A Corpus for Studying Full Answer Justification
Question answering (QA) systems aim at retrieving precise information from a large collection of documents. To be considered as reliable by users, a QA system must provide element...
Arnaud Grappy, Brigitte Grau, Olivier Ferret, Cyri...
LREC
2010
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Evaluation Protocol and Tools for Question-Answering on Speech Transcripts
Question Answering (QA) technology aims at providing relevant answers to natural language questions. Most Question Answering research has focused on mining document collections co...
Nicolas Moreau, Olivier Hamon, Djamel Mostefa, Sop...
LREC
2010
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An Evaluation of Technologies for Knowledge Base Population
Previous content extraction evaluations have neglected to address problems which complicate the incorporation of extracted information into an existing knowledge base. Previous qu...
Paul McNamee, Hoa Trang Dang, Heather Simpson, Pat...
LREC
2010
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Evaluating Multilingual Question Answering Systems at CLEF
The paper offers an overview of the key issues raised during the seven years' activity of the Multilingual Question Answering Track at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CL...
Pamela Forner, Danilo Giampiccolo, Bernardo Magnin...
CLEF
2008
Springer
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Some Experiments in Question Answering with a Disambiguated Document Collection
Abstract. This paper describes our approach to the Question Answering - Word Sense Disambiguation task. This task consists in carrying out Question Answering over a disambiguated d...
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso
CLEF
2008
Springer
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Dublin City University at QA@CLEF 2008
We describe our participation in Multilingual Question Answering at CLEF 2008 using German and English as our source and target languages respectively. The system was built using ...
Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Josef van Genabith
CLEF
2008
Springer
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Overview of QAST 2008
Abstract. 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 Transcri...
Jordi Turmo, Pere Comas, Sophie Rosset, Lori Lamel...
CLEF
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Overview of the Answer Validation Exercise 2008
The Answer Validation Exercise at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is aimed at developing systems able to decide whether the answer of a Question Answering (QA) system i...
Álvaro Rodrigo, Anselmo Peñas, Felis...