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Are Passages Enough? The MIRACLE Team Participation at QA@CLEF2009

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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10016/20480
ISBN: 978-3-642-15753-0 (print)
ISBN: 978-3-642-15754-7 (online)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15754-7_32
UXXI: CC/0000011561
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2009-09
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This paper summarizes the participation of the MIRACLE team in the Multilingual Question Answering Track at CLEF 2009. In this campaign, we took part in the monolingual Spanish task at ResPubliQA and submitted two runs. We have adapted our QA system to the new JRC-Acquis collection and the legal domain. We tested the use of answer filtering and ranking techniques against a baseline system using passage retrieval with no success. The run using question analysis and passage retrieval obtained a global accuracy of 0.33, while the addition of an answer filtering resulted in 0.29. We provide an analy-sis of the results for different questions types to investigate why it is difficult to leverage previous QA techniques. Another task of our work has been the appli-cation of temporal management to QA. Finally we include some discussion of the problems found with the new collection and the complexities of the domain.
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Preceedins of: 10th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2009.Took place September 30 - October 2, 2009,in Corfu, Greece. The event Web site is http://www.clef-campaign.org/2009.html
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Multilingual Information Access Evaluation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6241 (2010) pp. 281-288
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