Dublin City University at QA@CLEF 2008

We describe our participation in Multilingual Question Answering at CLEF 2008 using German and English as our source and target languages respectively. The system was built using UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architechture) as underlying framework. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing; H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval; H.3.4 Systems and Software; H.3.7 Digital Libraries; H.2.3 [Database Managment]: Languages--Query Languages General Terms Measurement, Performance, Experimentation Keywords Question Answering, Information Extraction, Importance Ranking

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Sisay Fissaha Adafre, Josef van Genabith
• Keywords: CLEF 2008, Information Management, Multilingual Question Answering, Question Answering, Unstructured Information Management