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Multilingual Question Answering Breakout Summary 2008

Recap of 2007 CLEF Multilingual Question Answering Track, 2008 task changes, categories (FACTOID, DEFINITION), linked questions, topic constraints, NIL questions, language resources, and upcoming exercises and pilots. Organizing committee updates and language representation by institutions.

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Multilingual Question Answering Breakout Summary 2008

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  1. CLEF 2007Multilingual Question Answering Track Breakout session summary 2h.

  2. Summary • 2008 Repeat task (second chance) • Too many changes last year

  3. 2008 setting • FACTOID • (loc, mea, org, per, tim, cnt, obj , oth) • DEFINITION (less number) • (per, org, obj, oth) • CLOSED LIST • LINKED QUESTIONS • TOPIC: Person or Event, not provided to participants • Only a portion of the questions • Temporal restrictions • NIL questions (5%) • Collections • News • Wikipedia Nov. 2006

  4. Confirm Organizing Committee Bad news • UvA says good-bye -> Dutch?

  5. 2008 Organizing Committee • UNED (A. Peñas): Spanish • CELCT(D. Giampiccolo, P. Forner): Italian • U. Amsterdam (V. Jijkoun): Dutch? • U. Limerick (R. Sutcliff): English • DFKI (B. Sacalenau): German • ELDA/ELRA (C. Ayache): French • Linguateca (P. Rocha): Portuguese • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (P. Osenova): Bulgarian • IASI (D. Cristea): Romanian • U. Basque Country:Basque • Depok University of Indonesia (M. Adriani): Indonesian (only source language)

  6. Exercises • AVE (UNED) • Same framework • Aditional evaluation measures • QAST (UPC) • New collections • English, French and Spanish • QAWSD (U. Basque Country) • English news collections + WSD • RealTime (?) • Reactivate

  7. Future • Questions with Geo restrictions (conection with GeoCLEF) • Use Geo resources (databases) • Pilot? Ask Geo about use resources in QA • Joint Pilot: 5O temporally 5O spatially restricted questions? • New sources like web services and databases • Looking for the user • She seems a surfer (web surfer)

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