The TREC 2003 question answering track contained two tasks, the passages task and the main task. In the passages task, systems returned a single text snippet in response to factoi...
We compared two different interfaces to the InQuery IR system with respect to their support for the TREC-9 Interactive Track Question-Answering task. One interface presented searc...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Amymarie Keller, Diane Kelly, ...
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2003 Question Answering track. We explain the ideas underlying our approaches to the task, report on our results, provide an error analy...
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
The TREC 2007 question answering (QA) track contained two tasks: the main task consisting of series of factoid, list, and “Other” questions organized around a set of targets, ...