University of Évora in QA@CLEF-2004.

The approach followed by the University of E ́vora team in order to build a system able to participate in the QA-CLEF task is described. The system is based in two steps: for each question, a first information retrieval task selects a set of potentially relevant documents; then, each of these docume...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quaresma, Paulo (author)
Other Authors: Quintano, Luis (author), Rodrigues, Irene (author), Saias, José (author), Salgueiro, Pedro (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10174/5814
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/5814
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Summary:The approach followed by the University of E ́vora team in order to build a system able to participate in the QA-CLEF task is described. The system is based in two steps: for each question, a first information retrieval task selects a set of potentially relevant documents; then, each of these documents is analysed trying to obtain their semantic represen- tation and the answer to the initial query. The proposed approach was applied to the test set of the QA-CLEF for the Portuguese language and the obtained results were quite interest- ing and motivating and allowed the identification of strong and weak characteristics of the system.