Overview of the TREC 2006 Question Answering Track

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November 5, 2008

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Hoa T. Dang, Jimmy Lin, Diane Kelly

Abstract

The TREC 2006 question answering track contained two tasks: a main task and a complex, interactive question answering (ciQA) task. As in 2005, the main task consisted of series of factoid, list, and ``Other'' questions organized around a set of targets. The ciQA task provided a framework for participants to investigate interaction in the context of complex information needs, and was a blend of the TREC 2005 QA relationship task and the TREC 2005 HARD track. Multiple assessors judged the importance of information nuggets used to evaluate the ``Other'' responses and ciQA responses, resulting in an evaluation that is more stable and discriminative than using only a single assessor to judge nugget importance.

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evaluation, information/knowledge management, question answering

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Dang, H. , Lin, J. and Kelly, D. (2008), Overview of the TREC 2006 Question Answering Track, Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=51197 (Accessed December 12, 2024)