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Proposal for QAST 2008 www.lsi.upc.edu/~qast. Jordi Turmo TALP Research Centre UPC. Organizers. UPC Jordi Turmo (coordinator) Pere R. Comas LIMSI Sophie Rosset Lori Lamel ELDA Christelle Ayache Djamel Mostefa. QAST 08 : new goals. Introduction of Multilinguality
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Proposal forQAST 2008www.lsi.upc.edu/~qast Jordi Turmo TALP Research Centre UPC
Organizers • UPC Jordi Turmo (coordinator) Pere R. Comas • LIMSI Sophie Rosset Lori Lamel • ELDA Christelle Ayache Djamel Mostefa
QAST 08: new goals • Introduction of Multilinguality • English, Spanish, French • Study of the effect of the ASR degradation • How many WER is useful for QA on speech transcripts? • Introductionof new answer/question types • noun phrases as possible answers (not only strong NEs) • definitional questions • Evaluation of subtasks • Question classification, passage retrieval and answer extraction • Justification of answers
QAST 08: Corpora • Used for QAST 2007 New in QAST 2008 • Different versions with different levels of WER • Lattices for most of the corpora in one WER level
Towards QAST 08 • Oral spontaneous questions The problem of defining a methodology to get them ( Use Cases … Jussi Karlgren, Stockholm) • Introduction of new languages Ex: European Parliament Sessions • Introduction of crosslinguality Ex: Manual translations of European Parliament Sessions and questions to different languages
Suggestions/comments? You will be very wellcome to QAST 2008 !!!