CLVQ: cross-language video question/answering system

Multilanguage information retrieval promotes users to browse documents in the form of their mother language, and more and more peoples interested in retrieves short answers rather than a full document. In this paper, we present a cross-language video QA system i.e. CLVQ, which could process the English questions, and find answers in Chinese videos. The main contribution of this research are: (1) the application of QA technology into different media; and (2) adopt a new answer finding approach without human-made rules; (3) the combination of several techniques of passage retrieval algorithms. The experimental result shows 56% of answer finding. The testing collection was consists of six discovery movies, and questions are from the School of Discovery Web site.

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