@inproceedings{e457bdae72c34cc192db89df8b6bf68d,
title = "Evaluating multilingual question answering systems at CLEF",
abstract = "The paper offers an overview of the key issues raised during the seven years' activity of the Multilingual Question Answering Track at the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The general aim of the Multilingual Question Answering Track has been to test both monolingual and cross-language Question Answering (QA) systems that process queries and documents in several European languages, also drawing attention to a number of challenging issues for research in multilingual QA. The paper gives a brief description of how the task has evolved over the years and of the way in which the data sets have been created, presenting also a brief summary of the different types of questions developed. The document collections adopted in the competitions are sketched as well, and some data about the participation are provided. Moreover, the main evaluation measures used to evaluate system performances are explained and an overall analysis of the results achieved is presented.",
author = "Pamela Forner and Danilo Giampiccolo and Bernardo Magnini and Anselmo Pe{\~n}as and {\'A}lvaro Rodrigo and Richard Sutcliffe",
year = "2010",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
pages = "2774--2781",
editor = "Daniel Tapias and Irene Russo and Olivier Hamon and Stelios Piperidis and Nicoletta Calzolari and Khalid Choukri and Joseph Mariani and Helene Mazo and Bente Maegaard and Jan Odijk and Mike Rosner",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010",
note = "7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010 ; Conference date: 17-05-2010 Through 23-05-2010",
}