The thousand-question Spanish general knowledge database

The Spanish General Knowledge Norms

BDCon: A Spanish knowledge database

In this paper we describe a knowledge base that has been built using the partially structured knowledge from encyclopaedias. The BDCon (from the Spanish: Base de Datos de Conocimiento) is a general ontology built around an extended Spanish lexicon extracted from two encyclopaedias and a cartographic database. It is composed by a number of interconnected knowledge structures, each of them coveri...

Spanish Question Answering Evaluation

This paper reports the most significant issues related to the launching of a Monolingual Spanish Question Answering evaluation track at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2003). It introduces some questions about multilingualism and describes the methodology for test suite production, task, judgment of answers as well as the results obtained by the participant systems.

Question Answering in Spanish

This paper describes the architecture, operation and results obtained with the Question Answering prototype for Spanish developed in the Department of Language Processing and Information Systems at the University of Alicante for CLEF-2003 Spanish monolingual QA evaluation task. Our system has been fully developed from scratch and it combines shallow natural language processing tools with statis...

Examining the Role of Statistical and Linguistic Knowledge Sources in a General-Knowledge Question-Answering System

We describe and evaluate an implemented system for general-knowledge question answering. The system combines techniques for standard ad-hoc information retrieval (IR), query-dependent text summarization, and shallow syntactic and semantic sentence analysis. In a series of experiments we examine the role of each statistical and linguistic knowledge source in the question-answering system. In con...