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Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track

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Ellen M. Voorhees

Abstract

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 factoid questions; the evaluation metric was the number of snippets that contained a correct answer. The main task contained three separate
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Keywords

question answering, TREC

Citation

Voorhees, E. (2004), Overview of the TREC 2003 Question Answering Track, Other, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=50466 (Accessed December 14, 2024)

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Created March 1, 2004, Updated November 8, 2016