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This paper presents a system for real-time, open-domain question answering on the Web of documents written in Portuguese, prepared to handle factual questions and available as a freely accessible online service. In order to deliver candidate answers to input questions phrased in Portuguese, this system resorts to a number of shallow processing tools and question answering techniques that are specifically geared to cope with the Portuguese language.
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Branco, A., Rodrigues, L., Silva, J., Silveira, S. (2008). Real-Time Open-Domain QA on the Portuguese Web. In: Geffner, H., Prada, R., Machado Alexandre, I., David, N. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2008. IBERAMIA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88309-8_33
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