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Answering Portuguese Questions
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2008
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system that participated in the last four editions of CLEF. ...
This system uses the Web as a fundamental resource in its architecture, using information redundancy rather than sophisticated annotations of the document collections to retrieve answers. ...
This work was done in the scope of the Linguateca project, jointly funded by the Portuguese Government and the European Union (FEDER and FSE) under contract ref. POSC/339/1.3/C/NAC. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85980-2_26
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IdSay: Question Answering for Portuguese
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2009
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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IdSay is an open domain Question Answering system for Portuguese that was developed from scratch. ...
200 questions in the first answer, and to 85 answers considering the three answers that could be returned per question. ...
QA@CLEF: Main Task Description The Portuguese monolingual task of QA@CLEF consists in finding answers to 200 questions within a text collection, all in Portuguese. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04447-2_40
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Using Answer Retrieval Patterns to Answer Portuguese Questions
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2009
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system which has been participating at QA@CLEF since 2004. ...
We also evaluated the second and third best answers returned by Esfinge. This evaluation showed that when Esfinge answers correctly a question, it does so usually with its first answer. ...
Acknowledgments This work was done in the scope of the Linguateca project, jointly funded by the Portuguese Government and the European Union (FEDER and FSE) under contract ref. POSC/339/1.3/C/NAC. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04447-2_42
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Priberam's Question Answering System for Portuguese
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2006
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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This paper describes the work done by Priberam in the development of a question answering (QA) system for Portuguese. ...
Special focus is given to the question analysis, document and sentence retrieval, and answer extraction stages. ...
Priberam would also like to express its thanks to the CLEF organization and to Linguateca for preparing and supervising the Portuguese evaluation. ...
doi:10.1007/11878773_46
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A question-answering system for Portuguese juridical documents
2005
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law - ICAIL '05
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We present a Question-Answering (QA) system for Portuguese juridical documents. ...
The QA system was applied to the complete set of decisions from several Portuguese juridical institutions (Supreme Courts, High Court, Courts, and Attorney-General's Office) in a total of 180,000 documents ...
is analyzed by the Portuguese parser PALAVRAS [2] . ...
doi:10.1145/1165485.1165536
dblp:conf/icail/Rodrigues05
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DEEPAGÉ: Answering Questions in Portuguese about the Brazilian Environment
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2021
arXiv
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As training data, we collected questions from open-domain datasets, as well as content from the Portuguese Wikipedia and news from the press. ...
Given the availability of large textual databases on ecological themes, it is natural to resort to question answering (QA) systems to increase social awareness and understanding about these topics. ...
when it comes to automatic question answering. ...
arXiv:2110.10015v1
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Assessing Factoid Question-Answer Generation for Portuguese (Short Paper)
2020
Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies
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We present work on the automatic generation of question-answer pairs in Portuguese, useful, for instance, for populating the knowledge-base of question-answering systems. ...
of question-answer pairs, which can be seen as baselines; (iii) results of those approaches in the corpus. ...
Bearing this in mind, we present a new benchmark for question-answer generation (QAG) in Portuguese, followed by two baseline approaches. ...
doi:10.4230/oasics.slate.2020.16
dblp:conf/slate/Ferreira0O20
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The acquisition of answers to yes – no questions in European Portuguese: syntactic, discourse and pragmatic factors
2003
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
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This paper (i) describes the patterns of answers to yes-no questions in European Portuguese; (ii) presents data illustrating the acquisition of these patterns; (iii) argues that the acquisition of patterns ...
of answer to yes-no questions in European Portuguese provides evidence for two types of modularity in the acquisition process: modularity of syntax, discourse and pragmatics and modularity within the ...
Types of answer to yes-no questions in European Portuguese European Portuguese has different ways of presenting a minimal answer to a yes-no question. ...
doi:10.5334/jpl.36
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First Evaluation of Esfinge – A Question Answering System for Portuguese
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2005
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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In this paper I will start by describing Esfinge -a general domain Portuguese question answering system, and then the strategies I used to participate in the CLEF-2004 QA track. ...
Esfinge With a question answering system we want, for a given question, that the system be able of returning answers with the help of an information repository. ...
To a given question, even if we don't know the answer, we can predict the type of expected answer. For example: -A "When?" question implies an answer of type "date". ...
doi:10.1007/11519645_51
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The Senso Question Answering Approach to Portuguese QA@CLEF-2007
2007
Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
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There is a logic-programming based module that looks for answers within the facts list that unify and validate the question logic form. ...
The full text collection is indexed and for each question it's done a search, for retrieval of possible relevant documents that may have one answer. ...
The Portuguese monolingual QA had 200 questions that this system processed, looking for an answer in the texts. ...
dblp:conf/clef/SaiasQ07a
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Using Lucene for Developing a Question-Answering Agent in Portuguese
2019
Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies
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The solution described answers natural language questions based on an indexed list of FAQs. Its adaptation to different domains is a matter of changing the underlying list. ...
Different configurations of this solution, mostly on the language analysis level, resulted in different search strategies, which were tested for answering questions about the economic activity in Portugal ...
Conclusion and Future Work We described how the IR library Lucene can be used in the development of a QA agent that finds answers to questions in Portuguese. ...
doi:10.4230/oasics.slate.2019.2
dblp:conf/slate/OliveiraFRA19
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The Key to the First CLEF with Portuguese: Topics, Questions and Answers in CHAVE
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2005
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Pirá: A Bilingual Portuguese-English Dataset for Question-Answering about the Ocean
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2022
arXiv
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2021
Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management
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doi:10.1145/3459637.3482012 fatcat:hw43m3fpkrgdxnmtyncrbvfn6m
This paper presents the Pir\'a dataset, a large set of questions and answers about the ocean and the Brazilian coast both in Portuguese and English. ...
The Pir\'a dataset consists of 2261 properly curated question/answer (QA) sets in both languages. ...
Again, each QA set comprised four elements: question in Portuguese, answer in Portuguese, question in English, and answer in English. The remaining instructions were the same as for Corpus 1. ...
arXiv:2202.02398v1
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Integrating question answering and text-to-SQL in Portuguese
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2022
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Deep learning transformers have drastically improved systems that automatically answer questions in natural language. ...
Experiments show that our system selects the appropriate answering method with high accuracy (over 99\%), thus validating a modular question answering strategy. ...
Question Answering Datasets In order to build a system in Portuguese, it was necessary to use a dataset with questions and answers in that language. ...
doi:10.48550/arxiv.2202.04048
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Analysing Off-The-Shelf Options for Question Answering with Portuguese FAQs
2022
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Following the current interest in developing automatic question answering systems, we analyse alternative approaches for finding suitable answers from a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), in Portuguese ...
We analyse the effort required for their configuration, the accuracy of their answers, and the time they take to get such answers. ...
and on different domains.
19:6 Analysing Off-The-Shelf Options for Question Answering with Portuguese FAQs The AIA-BDE corpus [7] contains 855 question-answer pairs on topics related to public administration ...
doi:10.4230/oasics.slate.2022.19
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