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This report describes the work done by the QA group of the Language Technology Lab at DFKI, for the 2004 edition of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). Based on the experience we obtained through our participation at QA@Clef-2003... more
This report describes our tests on applying statistical translation models for bilingual IR tasks in CLEF-2001. These translation models have been trained on a set of parallel web pages automatically mined from the Web. Our previous... more
This paper describes the work done by Priberam in the development of a question answering (QA) system for Portuguese. The system was built using the company’s natural language processing (NLP) workbench and information retrieval... more
Question Answering is a major research topic at the University of Alicante. For this reason, this year two groups participated in the QA@CLEF track using different approaches. In this paper we describe the work of Alicante 2 group. This... more
This year, besides providing support to other groups participating in cross-language Question Answering (QA) tasks, and submitting runs both for the monolingual Italian and for the cross-language Italian/English tasks, the ITC-irst... more
The CEA-LIST/LIC2M develops both cross-language information retrieval systems and content-based image retrieval systems. The ad hoc and medical tasks of the ImageCLEF campaign offered us the opportunity to perform some experiments on... more
This paper presents the ITC-irst Multilingual Question Answering system Diogene. The system was used successfully on the CLEF-2003, TREC-2003, TREC-2002 and TREC-2001 QA tracks. Diogene relies on a classical three-layer architecture:... more
This paper describes the first set of experiments defined by the MIRACLE (Multilingual Information RetrievAl for the CLEf campaign) research group for some of the cross language tasks defined by CLEF. These experiments combine different... more
This paper presents the extension of the ITC-irst Diogene Question Answering system towards multilinguality. Diogene relies on a well tested three-components architecture built in the framework of our participation in the QA track at the... more
LogAnswer is a logic-oriented question answering system developed by the AI research group at the University of Koblenz-Landau and by the IICS at the University of Hagen. The system addresses two notorious problems of the logic-based... more
This paper proposes two kinds of relevance measures to rank documents by geographic restriction: scope-based and type-based. The non-geographic and geographic relevance scores are combined using a weighted harmonic mean. The proposed... more