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For its fourth participation at QA@CLEF, the German question answering (QA) system InSicht was improved for CLEF 2007 in the following main areas: questions containing pronominal or nominal anaphors are treated by a coreference resolver; the shallow QA methods are improved; and a specialized module is added for answer merging. Results showed a performance drop compared to last year mainly due to problems in handling the newly added Wikipedia corpus. However, dialog treatment by coreference resolution delivered very accurate results so that follow-up questions can be handled similarly to isolated questions.
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Hartrumpf, S., Glöckner, I., Leveling, J. (2008). Coreference Resolution for Questions and Answer Merging by Validation. In: Peters, C., et al. Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval. CLEF 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5152. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85760-0_32
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