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  <Title>Cross-Cutting Aspects of Cross-Language Question Answering Systems</Title>
  <Section position="5" start_page="20" end_page="20" type="evalu">
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4 Results
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The presented QA framework has been used both in mono-lingual and cross-lingual scenarios for closed document collections (CLEF collection) and open document collections (World Wide Web). In terms of reusability and extensibility, the framework allowed for up to two weeks of work for building fully functional QA systems for different use scenarios. In terms of time performance for systems build upon the framework, the following figures apply: for systems used to query the Web a response time of up to 20 seconds in mono-lingual settings could be measured; those querying the CLEF document collection in a mono-lingual setting (German only) registered a latency of up to 3 seconds and for a cross-lingual setting of up to 15 seconds.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The qualitative performance has been measured only on closed document collection and the best results for 200 questions of the CLEF 2005 evaluation campaign in different use scenarios, according to [NS05b], were as follows:</Paragraph>
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