Exploiting Linguistic Indices and Syntactic Structures for Multilingual Question Answering: ITC-irst at CLEF 2005

نویسندگان

  • Hristo Tanev
  • Milen Kouylekov
  • Bernardo Magnini
  • Matteo Negri
  • Kiril Ivanov Simov
چکیده

This year we participated at 4 Question Answering tasks at CLEF: the Italian monolingual (I), Italian-English (I/E), Bulgarian monolingual (B), and Bulgarian-English (B/E) bilingual task. While we did not change the approach in the Italian task (I), we experimented with several new approaches based on linguistic structures and statistics in the B, I/E, and B/E tasks.

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تاریخ انتشار 2005