FRASQUES: A Question Answering system in the EQueR evaluation campaign

Brigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat, Laura Monceaux


Abstract
Question-answering (QA) systems aim at providing either a small passage or just the answer to a question in natural language. We have developed several QA systems that work on both English and French. This way, we are able to provide answers to questions given in both languages by searching documents in both languages also. In this article, we present our French monolingual system FRASQUES which participated in the EQueR evaluation campaign of QA systems for French in 2004. First, the QA architecture common to our systems is shown. Then, for every step of the QA process, we consider which steps are language-independent, and for those that are language-dependent, the tools or processes that need to be adapted to switch for one language to another. Finally, our results at EQueR are given and commented; an error analysis is conducted, and the kind of knowledge needed to answer a question is studied.
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L06-1410
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Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)
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May
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2006
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Genoa, Italy
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Aldo Gangemi, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Daniel Tapias
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/658_pdf.pdf
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Brigitte Grau, Anne-Laure Ligozat, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat, and Laura Monceaux. 2006. FRASQUES: A Question Answering system in the EQueR evaluation campaign. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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FRASQUES: A Question Answering system in the EQueR evaluation campaign (Grau et al., LREC 2006)
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