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We evaluate the feasibility of applying currently available research tools to the problem of cross lingual QA. We establish a task baseline by combining a cross lingual IR system with a monolingual QA system in a very short amount of time. A higher precision strategy involves applying the monolingual QA system to an automatically translated question, assumed to be correct. A higher coverage strategy consists of a term weighted proximity measure with varied query expansion, tuned for each individual question type.
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Lita, L.V., Rogati, M., Carbonell, J. (2004). Cross Lingual QA: A Modular Baseline in CLEF 2003. In: Peters, C., Gonzalo, J., Braschler, M., Kluck, M. (eds) Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems. CLEF 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30222-3_51
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