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20th Century Esfinge (Sphinx) solving the riddles at CLEF 2005

Abstract

Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system. It tries to take advantage of the steadily growing and constantly update information freely available in the World Wide Web in its question answering tasks. The system participated last year for the first time in the monolingual QA track. However, the results were compromised by several basic errors, which were corrected shortly after. This year, Esfinge participation was expected to yield better results and allowexperimentation with a Named Entity Recognition System, as well as try a multilingual QA track for the first time. This paper describes bow the system works, presents the results obtained by the official runs in considerable detail, as well as results of experiments measuring the import of different parts of the system, by reporting the decrease in performance when the system is executed without some of its components/features.

Category

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Luís Fernando Costa

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Digital / Sustainable Communication Technologies

Year

2006

Publisher

Springer

Book

Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September, 2005, Revised Selected Papers

Issue

4022

ISBN

978-3-540-45697-1

Page(s)

467 - 476

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