System Description of NTOUA Group in CLQA1

Abstract

CLQA1 is the first large scale evaluation on Chinese question answering. Our group participated in the C-E subtask. We augmented our monolingual Chinese QA system to handle cross-lingual QA. A bilingual dictionary and online web search engines were used to do the translation. Six runs were submitted at last, and the best run could provide correct answers of 8 of 200 questions at top 1 and 22 of 200 questions by top-5 answers.