Design and performance analysis of a factoid question answering system for spontaneous speech transcriptions
Mihai Surdeanu, David Domínguez-Sal, Pere R. Comas · 2006
This paper introduces a QA designed from scratch to handle speech transcriptions. The system’s strength is achieved by analyz-ing the speech transcriptions with a mix of IR-oriented methodolo-gies and a small number of robust NLP components. We evaluate the system on transcriptions of spontaneous speech from several 1-hour-long seminars and presentations and show that the system obtains encouraging performance. Index Terms: question answering, natural language processing 1.