Ihardetsi Question Answering System at QA@CLEF 2008.

This paper describes IHARDETSI, a question answering system for Basque. We present the results of our rst participation in the QA@CLEF 2008 evaluation task. We participated in three subtasks using Basque, English and Spanish as source languages and Basque as target language. We approached the Spanish-Basque and English- Basque cross-lingual tasks with a machine translation system that process a question in the source language (i.e. Spanish, English), translates into the target language (i.e. Basque) and, nally, the obtained Basque question is sent to Ihardetsi system. We submitted four runs, one for Basque-Basque subtask, one for English-Basque subtask and two for Spanish-Basque subtask.