Cross-Lingual Romanian to English Question Answering at CLEF 2006

Puşcaşu, Georgiana; Iftene, Adrian; Pistol, Íonuț; Trandabăț, Diana; Tufiș, Dan; Ceauşu, Alin; Ştefănescu, Dan; Ion, Radu; Dornescu, Iustin; Moruz, Alex; Cristea, Dan

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-74999-8_46

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“…The conjunction of all sub-queries corresponding to the question keywords forms the final query. Term translation is achieved with an approach similar to the one we employed when we participated together with two Romanian research groups in the same task at CLEF 2006 [12]. It also resembles the one employed by Ferrandez et al [5] for the English to Spanish task of the same CLEF campaign.…”

Section: Term Translatormentioning

confidence: 99%

University of Wolverhampton at CLEF 2007

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Abstract. This paper reports on the participation of the University of Wolverhampton in the Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF) track of the CLEF 2007 campaign. We approached the Romanian to English cross-lingual task with a Question Answering (QA) system that processes a question in the source language (i.e. Romanian), translates the identified keywords into the target language (i.e. English), and finally searches for answers in the English document collection. We submitted one run of our system that has achieved an overall accuracy of 14%, and a precision over non-NIL answers of 33.73%. Error analysis revealed that this low performance is mainly due to the lack of a reliable translation methodology from the source in the target language.

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Section: Term Translatormentioning

confidence: 99%