Evaluating Multilingual Question Answering Systems at CLEF
Pamela Forner, Danilo Giampiccolo, Bernardo Magnini, Anselmo Peñas, Álvaro Rodrigo, Richard Sutcliffe
Abstract
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 (CLEF). The general aim of the Multilingual Question Answering Track has been to test both monolingual and cross-language Question Answering (QA) systems that process queries and documents in several European languages, also drawing attention to a number of challenging issues for research in multilingual QA. The paper gives a brief description of how the task has evolved over the years and of the way in which the data sets have been created, presenting also a brief summary of the different types of questions developed. The document collections adopted in the competitions are sketched as well, and some data about the participation are provided. Moreover, the main evaluation measures used to evaluate system performances are explained and an overall analysis of the results achieved is presented.- Anthology ID:
- L10-1320
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2010
- Address:
- Valletta, Malta
- Venue:
- LREC
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- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/464_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Pamela Forner, Danilo Giampiccolo, Bernardo Magnini, Anselmo Peñas, Álvaro Rodrigo, and Richard Sutcliffe. 2010. Evaluating Multilingual Question Answering Systems at CLEF. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), Valletta, Malta. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Evaluating Multilingual Question Answering Systems at CLEF (Forner et al., LREC 2010)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/464_Paper.pdf