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CLEF 2007 Multilingual Question Answering Track. Breakout session summary 2h. Summary. 2008 Repeat task (second chance) Too many changes last year. 2008 setting. FACTOID ( loc, mea, org, per, tim, cnt, obj , oth ) DEFINITION (less number) (per, org, obj, oth) CLOSED LIST
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CLEF 2007Multilingual Question Answering Track Breakout session summary 2h.
Summary • 2008 Repeat task (second chance) • Too many changes last year
2008 setting • FACTOID • (loc, mea, org, per, tim, cnt, obj , oth) • DEFINITION (less number) • (per, org, obj, oth) • CLOSED LIST • LINKED QUESTIONS • TOPIC: Person or Event, not provided to participants • Only a portion of the questions • Temporal restrictions • NIL questions (5%) • Collections • News • Wikipedia Nov. 2006
Confirm Organizing Committee Bad news • UvA says good-bye -> Dutch?
2008 Organizing Committee • UNED (A. Peñas): Spanish • CELCT(D. Giampiccolo, P. Forner): Italian • U. Amsterdam (V. Jijkoun): Dutch? • U. Limerick (R. Sutcliff): English • DFKI (B. Sacalenau): German • ELDA/ELRA (C. Ayache): French • Linguateca (P. Rocha): Portuguese • Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (P. Osenova): Bulgarian • IASI (D. Cristea): Romanian • U. Basque Country:Basque • Depok University of Indonesia (M. Adriani): Indonesian (only source language)
Exercises • AVE (UNED) • Same framework • Aditional evaluation measures • QAST (UPC) • New collections • English, French and Spanish • QAWSD (U. Basque Country) • English news collections + WSD • RealTime (?) • Reactivate
Future • Questions with Geo restrictions (conection with GeoCLEF) • Use Geo resources (databases) • Pilot? Ask Geo about use resources in QA • Joint Pilot: 5O temporally 5O spatially restricted questions? • New sources like web services and databases • Looking for the user • She seems a surfer (web surfer)