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Working towards a Greek-English cross-language passage retrieval system for question-answering

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Working towards a Greek-English cross-language passage retrieval system for question-answering

Methenitis, Spyros (2005) Working towards a Greek-English cross-language passage retrieval system for question-answering. Masters thesis, Concordia University.

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In this thesis, we present a set of experiments towards a cross-language Greek-English Question-Answering (QA) system. After exploring previous work done both in monolingual and cross-lingual QA, we have applied the common "question reformulation" strategy used in monolingual systems along with different translation strategies and evaluated the results with the TREC question set. We have mainly focused on the passage retrieval component. 24,2% of the documents retrieved for all questions contained a correct answer for the cross language component (compared to 38,3% for the monolingual component) and for 61,2% of the questions used we have obtained at least one document that contained the correct answer (compared to 91% for the monolingiual component)

Divisions:Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Computer Science and Software Engineering
Item Type:Thesis (Masters)
Authors:Methenitis, Spyros
Pagination:x, 132 leaves ; 29 cm.
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:M. Comp. Sc.
Program:Computer Science and Software Engineering
Date:2005
Thesis Supervisor(s):Kosseim, Leila
Identification Number:QA 76.9 Q4M48 2005
ID Code:8360
Deposited By: Concordia University Library
Deposited On:18 Aug 2011 18:23
Last Modified:13 Jul 2020 20:04
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