MIRACLE’s Cross-Lingual Question Answering Experiments with Spanish as a Target Languages 1: abstract

Our second participation in CLEF-QA consited in six runs with Spanish as a target language. The source languages were Spanish, English an Italian. miraQA uses a simple representation of the question that is enriched with semantic information like typed Named Entities. Runs used different strategies for answer extraction and selection, achiev- ing at best a 25’5% accuracy. The analysis of the errors suggests that improvements in answer selection are the most critical.