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This paper explores the feasibility of a multilingual question answering approach based on the Web redundancy. The paper introduces a system prototype that combines a translation machine with a statistical QA method. The main advantage of this proposal is its small dependence to a given language. The experimental results, obtained from a test set of 165 factual questions, demostrated the great potential of the approach, and gave interesting insights about the redundancy of the web and the online translators.
The present work was partially financed by the CONACYT (Project 43990A-1 and the scholarship No. 184663) third author thanks to the Secretara de Estado de Educacin y Universidades, España.
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Aceves-Pérez, R., Villaseñor-Pineda, L., Montes-y-Gomez, M. (2005). Towards a Multilingual QA System Based on the Web Data Redundancy. In: Szczepaniak, P.S., Kacprzyk, J., Niewiadomski, A. (eds) Advances in Web Intelligence. AWIC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3528. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11495772_6
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