Ihardetsi is a question answering system for Basque. It is a general platform which architecture pays special attention to: 1) the integration of the development and evaluation environments, and 2) the systematic use of XML declarative files to control the execution of the modules and the communication between them. It can work in a multilingual environment (see QA@CLEF 2008 evaluation forum) using MT systems.

QA for Basque.

C++, XML.

The current version has three main modules, as it is very common in the question answering systems: Question analysis, Passage retrieval and Answer extraction.

It is the first QA system for Basque.

Different projects funded by the Basque government

• Ansa O., Arregi X., Otegi A., Valverde A.. An XML Framework for a Basque Question Answering System. 7th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems. Milano, Italia. (ISSN 0302-9743, ISBN 3-540-34638-4, pp 577-588). 2006.
• Ansa O., Arregi X., Otegi A., Soraluze A. Ihardetsi question answering system at QA@CLEF 2008. Working Notes of the Cross-Lingual Evaluation Forum, Aarhus, Denmark. ISBN 2-912335-43-4, ISSN 1818-8044. 2008.