Working Towards a Greek-English Cross-Language Question-Answering System

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  • Spyros Methenitis
  • Leila Kosseim
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In this paper, we present a set of experiments towards a cross-language Greek-English Question-Answering (QA) system. After exploring previous work done both in monolingual and cross-lingual QA, we have applied the common “question reformulation” strategy used in monolingual systems along with different translation strategies and evaluated the results with the TREC question set. We have mainly focused on the passage retrieval component.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004