Adapting QA Components to Mine Answers in Speech Transcripts

Abstract. The paper describes QAst-v1 a robust question answering system for answering factoid questions in manual and automatic transcriptions of speech. The system is an adaptation of our text–based crosslingual open–domain QA system that we used for the CLEF main tasks.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Günter Neumann, Rui Wang
• Keywords: CLEF 2007, CLEF Main Tasks, Factoid Questions, Information Retrieval, Question Answering