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NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Evaluating the Evaluation: A Case Study Using the TREC 2002 Question Answering Track
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...
Ellen M. Voorhees
TREC
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Overview of the TREC 2004 Question Answering Track
The TREC 2004 Question Answering track contained a single task in which question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series contained factoid and list questions and ...
Ellen M. Voorhees
IRI
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Development of an evaluation model for Question Answering Systems
Question Answering Systems (QAS) are receiving increasing attention from information systems researchers, particularly those in the information retrieval and natural language proc...
Chorng-Shyong Ong, Min-Yuh Day, Wen-Lian Hsu
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Probabilistic question recommendation for question answering communities
User-Interactive Question Answering (QA) communities such as Yahoo! Answers are growing in popularity. However, as these QA sites always have thousands of new questions posted dai...
Mingcheng Qu, Guang Qiu, Xiaofei He, Cheng Zhang, ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
User preference choices for complex question answering
Question answering systems increasingly need to deal with complex information needs that require more than simple factoid answers. The evaluation of such systems is usually carrie...
Mingfang Wu, Falk Scholer, Andrew Turpin