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We describe our participation in Multilingual Question Answering at CLEF 2008 using German and English as our source and target languages, respectively. The system was built using UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architechture) as underlying framework.
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Adafre, S.F., van Genabith, J. (2009). Dublin City University at QA@CLEF 2008. In: Peters, C., et al. Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access. CLEF 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5706. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04447-2_41
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