DFKI's LT-lab at the CLEF 2005 Multiple Language Question Answering Track
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This report describes the work done by the QA group of the Language Technology Lab at DFKI for the 2005 edition of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). We describe the extensions made to our 2004 QA@CLEF German/English QA–system, especially the question–type driven selection of answer strategies. Furthermore, details concerning the processing of definition and temporal questions are described, as well as the results obtained in the monolingual German, bilingual English/German, and bilingual German/English tasks are presented and discussed throughout the paper.
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