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CLEF-QA 2009 Tasks

• ResPubliQA: Given a pool of 500 independent questions in natural language systems must return the passage (not the exact answer) that answers each question. The document collection is JRC-Acquis (http://langtech.jrc.it/JRC-Acquis.html) about EU documentation. Both questions and documents are translated and aligned for a subset of the official languages (at least Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish). See http://celct.isti.cnr.it/ResPubliQA/
  

• QAST: The aim of the third QAST exercise is to evaluate the QA technology in a real multilingual speech scenario in which written and oral questions (factual and definitional) in different languages could be formulated against a set of audio recordings related to speech events in those languages. The proposed scenario is the European Parliament sessions in English, Spanish and French. See http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~qast/

• GikiCLEF: Following the previous GikiP pilot at GeoCLEF 2008, the task focuses on open list questions over Wikipedia that require geographic reasoning, complex information extraction, and cross-lingual processing, at least for Dutch, English, German, Norwegian, Portuguese and Romanian. See http://www.linguateca.pt/GikiCLEF/