@inproceedings{4edb8c334fd142cfa67d89660fbd5b69,
title = "Robust question answering for speech transcripts using minimal syntactic analysis",
abstract = "This paper describes the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia in the CLEF 2007 Question Answering on Speech Transcripts track. For the processing of manual transcripts we have deployed a robust factual Question Answering that uses minimal syntactic information. For the handling of automatic transcripts we combine the QA system with a novel Passage Retrieval and Answer Extraction engine, which is based on a sequence alignment algorithm that searches for {"}sounds like{"} sequences in the document collection. We have also enriched the NERC with phonetic features to facilitate the recognition of named entities even when they are incorrectly transcribed.",
keywords = "Phonetic Distance, Question Answering, Spoken Document Retrieval",
author = "Comas, {Pere R.} and Jordi Turmo and Mihai Surdeanu",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-85760-0_56",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "3540857591",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
pages = "424--432",
booktitle = "Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval - 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Revised Selected Papers",
note = "8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007 ; Conference date: 19-09-2007 Through 21-09-2007",
}