We describe our participation in Multilingual Question Answering at CLEF 2008 using German and English as our source and target languages respectively. The system was built using UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) as underlying framework

Adafre, Sisay Fissaha

van Genabith, Josef

English

A maximum-entropy-inspired parser.

Adafre and Maarten de Rijke. Estimating importance features for fact mining (with a case study in biography mining).

Answer - question answering by combining lexical.

Comparing the Contribution of Syntactic and Semantic Features in Closed versus Open Domain Question Answering.

From Document Retrieval to Question Answering.

Graph-based ranking algorithms for sentence extraction, applied to text summarization.

Learning question classi

Methods for identifying names and ontological relations in text using heuristics for inducing regularities from data.

Murax: A robust linguistic approach for question-answering using an on-line encyclopedia.

Probabilistic part-of-speech tagging using decision trees.

Selectively using relations to improve precision in question answering.

The Lucene search engine.

Tjong Kim Sang. Introduction to the conll-2002 shared task: Language-independent named entity recognition.

Treebank-based acquisition of multilingual uni grammar resources.

Unstructured information management architecture.

Dublin City University at QA@CLEF 2008