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Moura, P., Gama, I., Batista, F. & Lopes, A. L. (2026). Optimising Retrieval for Linguistic Question-Answering in European Portuguese: A Benchmark on Ciberdúvidas Da Língua Portuguesa. In 15th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2026). (pp. 1-17). Lisboa
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P. A. Moura et al.,  "Optimising Retrieval for Linguistic Question-Answering in European Portuguese: A Benchmark on Ciberdúvidas Da Língua Portuguesa", in 15th Symp. on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2026), Lisboa, 2026, pp. 1-17
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@inproceedings{moura2026_1786549451305,
	author = "Moura, P. and Gama, I. and Batista, F. and Lopes, A. L.",
	title = "Optimising Retrieval for Linguistic Question-Answering in European Portuguese: A Benchmark on Ciberdúvidas Da Língua Portuguesa",
	booktitle = "15th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2026)",
	year = "2026",
	editor = "",
	volume = "",
	number = "",
	series = "",
	doi = "10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2026.1",
	pages = "1-17",
	publisher = "",
	address = "Lisboa",
	organization = "",
	url = "https://slate-conf.org/2026/home"
}
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TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Optimising Retrieval for Linguistic Question-Answering in European Portuguese: A Benchmark on Ciberdúvidas Da Língua Portuguesa
T2  - 15th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2026)
AU  - Moura, P.
AU  - Gama, I.
AU  - Batista, F.
AU  - Lopes, A. L.
PY  - 2026
SP  - 1-17
DO  - 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2026.1
CY  - Lisboa
UR  - https://slate-conf.org/2026/home
AB  - Information retrieval for question-answering remains underexplored in specialised domains and under-resourced language variants such as European Portuguese. Existing benchmarks largely target general-domain English data and document-centric retrieval, failing to capture the semantic alignment required for linguistic consultation tasks over curated question–answer (QA) pairs. We address this gap by introducing a controlled evaluation framework for retrieval over the "Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa" corpus, comprising 29,145 expert-validated QA entries. Our approach systematically analyses the interaction between indexing strategies, encoder models, and retrieval paradigms, while modelling real-world query variability through a paraphrase-based benchmark of 600 queries across five user profiles, manually validated by a professional linguist to ensure semantic fidelity. Experiments show that dense retrieval with an IR-optimised monolingual encoder significantly outperforms both sparse (BM25) and hybrid methods, achieving a Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR) of 0.93. Notably, hybrid retrieval underperforms due to lexical mismatch interference, challenging prevailing assumptions in the literature. Our contributions include a novel benchmark framework for linguistic QA retrieval, empirical evidence supporting monolingual IR-specialised models, and insights into retrieval robustness under paraphrastic variation, enabling improved QA systems for specialised and low-resource environments.
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