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This paper describes the work done by Priberam in the development of a question answering (QA) system for Portuguese. The system was built using the company’s natural language processing (NLP) workbench and information retrieval technology. Special focus is given to question analysis, document and sentence retrieval, as well as answer extraction stages. The paper discusses the system’s performance in the context of the QA@CLEF 2005 evaluation.
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Amaral, C., Figueira, H., Martins, A., Mendes, A., Mendes, P., Pinto, C. (2006). Priberam’s Question Answering System for Portuguese. In: Peters, C., et al. Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories. CLEF 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11878773_46
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