Ihardetsi: A Question Answering system for Basque built on reused linguistic processors

This paper presents Ihardetsi, a question answering system oriented to Basque. We describe the main architecture of the system, paying special attention to the use of linguistic resources and tools. The system has been built reusing such tools, on the basis that general linguistic processors can be adapted to satisfy the requirements of the question answering task. This methodology can be suitable for other projects, specially when lesser resourced languages are involved. Along with the description of the system, we outline its performance presenting some experiments and the obtained results.