INAOE at QAST 2009: Evaluating the usefulness of a phonetic codification of transcriptions
M. Alejandro Reyes-Barragán, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez · CLEF (Working Notes) · 2009
This paper describes the participation of the Laboratory of Language Technologies of INAOE at the QAST 2009 track. This participation was mainly focused on the evaluation of an enriched representation of transcriptions based on their phonetic codification. The idea that motivated the development of this new representation was to reduce the impact of the transcription errors by characterizing words with similar pronunciations through the same phonetic code. The achieved results were unsatisfactory since they indicate the phonetic information had no impact on the answer accuracy, even for those cases considering the transcriptions of lower quality.