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This paper describes Ihardetsi, a question answering system for Basque. We present the results of our first participation in the QA@CLEF 2008 evaluation task. We participated in three subtasks using Basque, English and Spanish as source languages, and Basque as target language. We approached the Spanish-Basque and English-Basque cross-lingual tasks with a machine translation system that first processes a question in the source language (i.e. Spanish, English), then translates it into the target language (i.e. Basque) and, finally, sends the obtained Basque question as input to the monolingual module.
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Ansa, O., Arregi, X., Otegi, A., Soraluze, A. (2009). Ihardetsi: A Basque Question Answering System at QA@CLEF 2008. In: Peters, C., et al. Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access. CLEF 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5706. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04447-2_43
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