Question Answering Learning technologies in a multiLingual and multiModal Environment (QALL-ME)
Project details:
QALL-ME (Question Answering Learning technologies in a multiLingual and Multimodal Environment) is an EU funded project in the IST area. The general objective is to establish a shared infrastructure for multilingual and multimodal open domain Question Answering for mobile phones.
- Start date: 1st Oct 2006
- Duration: 36 months
- Consortium:
- ITC-irst, Trento, Italy (coordinator)
- University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
- DFKI, Saarbruken, Germany
- University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain
- Comdata S.p.A., Torino, Italy
- Ubiest S.p.A., Treviso, Italy
- Waycom S.r.l., Albisola Superiore, Savona, Italy
Wolverhampton team
- Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, Director of the Research Institute in Information and Language Processing
- Dr. Constantin Orasan, contact person
- Iustin Dornescu, PhD student
- Dr. Laura Hasler, research fellow
- Dr. Dalila Mekhaldi, research fellow
- Dr. Shiyan Ou, research fellow
- Dr. Viktor Pekar, research fellow
- Georgiana Puscasu, research fellow
Resources developed by the project
- the first prototype of our system which can answer questions about movies and cinemas
- movie showing the functionality of the first prototype for Italian
- movie showing the functionality of the second prototype for Italian
- QALL-ME benchmark a multilingual resource of annotated spoken requests in the tourism domain. The benchmark includes questions in four languages (Italian, Spanish, English, and German), and their translations into English.