- Hideki Shima, Mengqiu Wang, Frank Lin, T. Mitamura. 2006. Modular Approach to Error Analysis and Evaluation for Multilingual Question Answering. Abstract: Multilingual Question Answering systems are generally very complex, integrating several sub-modules to achieve their result. Global metrics (such as average precision and recall) are insufficient when evaluating the performance of individual sub-modules and their influence on each other. In this paper, we present a modular approach to error analysis and evaluation; we use manually-constructed, gold-standard input for each module to obtain an upper-bound for the (local) performance of that module. This approach enables us to identify existing problem areas quickly, and to target improvements accordingly.
