Monolingual and Multilingual Question Answering on European Legislation

This paper documents the participation of the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence to the CLEF 2010 ResPubliQA lab. We answered questions in Romanian and English from Romanian documents of Acquis Communautaire and the European Parliament Proceedings. We extend the report from the previous ResPubliQA participation by introducing multi-factored paragraph relevance score training onto English-Romanian QA. We also investigate how our monolingual parametric QA system developed for the last year’s ResPubliQA track scales up to current challenges.