This paper accounts for Priberam's participation in the monolingual question answering (QA) track of CLEF 2007. In previous participations, Priberam's QA system obtained encouraging results both in monolingual and cross-language tasks. This year we endowed the system with syntactical processing, in order to capture the syntactic structure of the question. The main goal was to obtain a more tuned question categorisation and consequently a more precise answer extraction. Besides this, we provided our system with the ability to handle topic-related questions and to use encyclopaedic sources like Wikipedia. The paper provides a description of the improvements made in the system, followed by the discussion of the results obtained in Portuguese and Spanish monolingual runs. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Amaral, C., Cassan, A., Figueira, H., Martins, A., Mendes, A., Mendes, P., … Vidal, D. (2008). Priberam’s question answering system in QA@CLEF 2007. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5152 LNCS, pp. 364–371). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85760-0_46
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