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Building a question answering test collection
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The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, the track was used to investigate whether the evaluation methodology used for document retrieval is appropriate for a different natural language processing task. As with document relevance judging, assessors had legitimate differences of opinions as to whether a response actually answers a question, but comparative evaluation of QA systems was stable despite these differences. Creating a reusable QA test collection is fundamentally more difficult than creating a document retrieval test collection since the QA task has no equivalent to document identifiers.
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- Voorhees, E. M., & Tice, D. M.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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- ACM
- Published
- 2000-07
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- 200-207
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- W2028175314
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