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Following last year’s participation in the monolingual question answering (QA) track of CLEF, where Priberam’s QA system has achieved state-of-the-art results, this year we decided to take part in both Portuguese and Spanish monolingual tasks, as well as in two bilingual (Portuguese-Spanish and Spanish-Portuguese) tasks of QA@CLEF. This paper describes the improvements and changes implemented in Priberam’s QA system since last CLEF participation, detailing the work involved in its cross-lingual extension and discussing the results of the runs submitted to evaluation.
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Cassan, A. et al. (2007). Priberam’s Question Answering System in a Cross-Language Environment. In: Peters, C., et al. Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval. CLEF 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4730. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74999-8_37
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