Quartz: A Question Answering System for Dutch

We describe a question answering system for Dutch that we used for our participation in the 2006 CLEF Question Answering Dutch monolingual task. We give an overview of the system and focus on the question classification module, the multi-dimensional markup for data storage and access, the answer processing component, and our probabilistic approach to estimating answer correctness.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: David Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Joris van Rantwijk, Maarten de Rijke, Erik F. Tjong Kim Sang
• Keywords: CLEF 2006, Dutch Monolingual Task, Information Management, Question Answering, Question Answering System