The University of Amsterdam at WiQA 2006

نویسندگان

  • Sisay Fissaha Adafre
  • Valentin Jijkoun
  • Maarten de Rijke
چکیده

This paper describes our participation in the WiQA 2006 pilot on question answering using Wikipedia. We present an analysis of the results of our system for both monolingual and bilingual runs. The system currently works for Dutch and English.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006