The paper offers an overview of the key issues raised during the seven years' activity of the Multilingual Question Answering Track at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CL...
This paper summarizes the task design for iCLEF 2006 (the CLEF interactive track). Compared to previous years, we have proposed a radically new task: searching images in a natural...
QRISTAL [9] is a question answering system making intensive use of natural language processing both for indexing documents and extracting answers. It ranked first in the EQueR eva...
This paper reports on the pilot question answering track that was carried out within the CLEF initiative this year. The track was divided into monolingual and bilingual tasks: mono...
We describe the objectives and organization of the CLEF 2006 ad hoc track and discuss the main characteristics of the tasks offered to test monolingual, bilingual, and multilingual...
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Thomas Mand...