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Title	The Multilingual Question Answering Track at CLEF
Authors	B. Magnini, D. Giampicollo, L. Aunimo, C. Ayache, P. Osenova, A. Peñas, M. Rijke, B. Sacaleanu, D. Santos, R. Sutcliffe
Abstract	This paper presents an overview of the Multilingual Question Answering evaluation campaigns which have been organized at CLEF (Cross Language Evaluation Forum) since 2003. Over the years, the competition has registered a steady increment in the number of participants and languages involved. In fact, from the original eight groups which participated in 2003 QA track, the number of competitors in 2005 rose to twenty-four. Also, the performances of the systems have steadily improved, and the average of the best performances in the 2005 saw an increase of 10% with respect to the previous year.
Keywords	Question-Answering, Evaluation, Multilingual, CLEF, Corpora, Results
Full paper	The Multilingual Question Answering Track at CLEF

Title

The Multilingual Question Answering Track at CLEF

Authors

B. Magnini, D. Giampicollo, L. Aunimo, C. Ayache, P. Osenova, A. Peñas, M. Rijke, B. Sacaleanu, D. Santos, R. Sutcliffe

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the Multilingual Question Answering evaluation campaigns which have been organized at CLEF (Cross Language Evaluation Forum) since 2003. Over the years, the competition has registered a steady increment in the number of participants and languages involved. In fact, from the original eight groups which participated in 2003 QA track, the number of competitors in 2005 rose to twenty-four. Also, the performances of the systems have steadily improved, and the average of the best performances in the 2005 saw an increase of 10% with respect to the previous year.

Keywords

Question-Answering, Evaluation, Multilingual, CLEF, Corpora, Results

Full paper

The Multilingual Question Answering Track at CLEF