Towards a Multilingual QA System Based on the Web Data Redundancy

Abstract

This paper explores the feasibility of a multilingual question answering approach based on the Web redundancy. The paper introduces a system prototype that combines a translation machine with a statistical QA method. The main advantage of this proposal is its small dependence to a given language. The experimental results demonstrated the great potential of the approach and gave interesting insights about the Web redundancy and the online translators.