Saquete Boró, Estela, Vicedo, Jose-Luis, Martínez-Barco, Patricio, Muñoz, Rafael, Llopis, Fernando
Evaluation of complex temporal questions in CLEF-QA
SAQUETE, E., et al. "Evaluation of complex temporal questions in CLEF-QA". En: Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images : 5th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2004, Bath, UK, September 15-17, 2004, Revised Selected Papers / Carol Peters [et al.] (Eds.). Berlin : Springer, 2005. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 3491). ISBN 978-3-540-27420-9, pp. 591-596
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/22531
DOI: 10.1007/11519645_58
ISSN: 0302-9743 (Print)
ISBN: 978-3-540-27420-9
Abstract: 
This paper presents the evaluation of a QA system for the treatment of complex temporal questions. The system was implemented in a multilayered architecture where complex temporal questions are first decomposed into simple questions, according to the temporal relations expressed in the original question. These simple questions are then processed independently by our standard Question Answering engine and their respective answers are filtered to satisfy the temporal restrictions of each simple question. The answers to the simple decomposed questions are then combined, according to the temporal relations extracted from the original complex question, to give the final answer. This evaluation was performed as a pilot task in the Spanish QA Track of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2004.
Keywords:QA systems, Complex temporal questions, CLEF-QA
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