RACAI’s Question Answering System at QA@CLEF2007

We present a pattern-based question answering system for Romanian that participated in the Romanian monolingual task of the [email protected] 2007 track. We aim to prove that working with a good Boolean searching engine and using question type driven answer extraction heuristics and structural matching between the linkage representations of the question and candidate sentences, one can achieve acceptable results (30% overall accuracy).