2B$ - Testing past algorithms in nowadays web

Abstract

In this paper we look into Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, a contest of multiple-answer questions, as an answer selection subproblem. Answer selection, in Question Answering systems, allows them to boost one or more correct candidate answers over a set of candidate answers. In this subproblem we look only to a set of four candidate answers, in which one is the correct answer. The built platform is language independent and supports other languages besides English with no effort. In this paper we compare some techniques for answer selection, employing them to both English and Portuguese in the context of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The results showed that the strategy may be applicable to more than a language without damaging its performance, getting accuracies around 73%. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.