RT Book, Section T1 The multiple language question answering track at CLEF 2003 A1 Magnini, Bernardo A1 Romagnoli, Simone A1 Vallin, Alessandro A1 Herrera, Jesús A1 Peñas, Anselmo A1 Peinado, Víctor A1 Verdejo, Felisa A1 de Rijke, Maarten A2 Peters, Carol A2 Gonzalo, Julio A2 Braschler, Martin A2 Kluck, Michael AB This paper reports on the pilot question answering track that was carried out within the CLEF initiative this year. The track was divided into monolingual and bilingual tasks: monolingual systems were evaluated within the frame of three non-English European languages, Dutch, Italian and Spanish, while in the cross-language tasks an English document collection constituted the target corpus for Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French and German queries. Participants were given 200 questions for each task, and were allowed to submit up to two runs per task with up to three responses (either exact answers or 50 byte long strings) per question. We give here an overview of the track: we report on each task and discuss the creation of the multilingual test sets and the participants results. PB Springer-Verlag SN 3 540 24017 9 YR 2004 FD 2004 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53620 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53620 LA spa NO Artículo de los organizadores de la tarea de pregunta-respuesta del CLEF 2003. DS Docta Complutense RD 6 may 2024