Quantum, a French/English Cross-Language Question Answering System

We describe a method for modifying a monolingual English question answering system to allow it to accept French questions. Our method relies on a statistical translation engine to translate keywords, and a set of manually written rules for analyzing French questions. The additional steps performed by the cross-language system lower its performance by 28% compared to the original system.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Luc Plamondon, George F. Foster
• Keywords: CLEF 2003, French Questions, Monolingual English Question, Statistical Translation Engine