Workshop on
Multilingual Question Answering - MLQA'06

April 4, 2006, Trento, Italy


ACCEPTED PAPERS

Analysis of Multilingual QA technology
QA better than IR ?
Dominique Laurent, Patrick Séguéla, Sophie Nègre

The Effect of Machine Translation on the Performance of Arabic-English QA System
Azzah Al-Maskari, Mark Sanderson

Cross-Cutting Aspects of Cross-Language Question Answering Systems 
Bogdan Sacaleanu, Günter Neumann

Multilingual and Translingual QA systems
Evaluation and Improvement of Cross-Lingual Question Answering Strategies 
Anne-Laure Ligozat, Brigitte Grau, Isabelle Robba, Anne Vilnat

Keyword Translation Accuracy and Cross-Lingual Question Answering in Chinese and Japanese 
Teruko Mitamura, Mengqiu Wang, Hideki Shima, Frank Lin

BRUJA: Question Classification for Spanish. Using Machine Translation and an English Classifier
Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras, L. Alfonso Ureña López, Fernando Martínez Santiago

QA systems in other languages than English
Monolingual Web-based Factoid Question Answering in Chinese, Swedish, English and Japanese
E.W.D. Whittaker, J. Hamonic, D. Yang, T.Klingberg, S. Furui

Dialogue based Question Answering System in Telugu 
Rami Reddy Nandi Reddy, Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

Adaptation of existing QA systems
Adapting a Semantic Question Answering System to the Web 
Sven Hartrumpf

Experiments Adapting an Open-Domain Question Answering System to the Geographical Domain Using Scope-Based Resources 
Daniel Ferrés, Horacio Rodríguez

ISBN: 2-9524532-4-1