Making test corpora for question answering more representative

Andrew Walker; Andrew Starkey; Jeff Z. Pan; Advaith Siddharthan

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11382-1_1

Making test corpora for question answering more representative

Andrew Walker, Andrew Starkey, Jeff Z. Pan, Advaith Siddharthan

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Abstract

Despite two high profile series of challenges devoted to question answering technologies there remains no formal study into the representativeness that question corpora bear to real end-user inputs. We examine the corpora used presently and historically in the TREC and QALD challenges in juxtaposition with two more from natural sources and identify a degree of disjointedness between the two. We analyse these differences in depth before discussing a candidate approach to question corpora generation and provide a juxtaposition on its own representativeness. We conclude that these artificial corpora have good overall coverage of grammatical structures but the distribution is skewed, meaning performance measures may be inaccurate.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction
Subtitle of host publication	CLEF 2014.
Editors	Evangelos Kanoulas, Mihai Lupu, Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Mark Hall, Allan Hanbury, Elaine Toms
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319113821
ISBN (Print)	9783319113814
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11382-1_1
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	5th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2014 - Sheffield, United Kingdom Duration: 15 Sep 2014 → 18 Sep 2014

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	8685 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	03029743
ISSN (Electronic)	16113349

Conference

Conference	5th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2014
Country	United Kingdom
City	Sheffield
Period	15/09/14 → 18/09/14

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Theoretical Computer Science

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Walker, A., Starkey, A., Pan, J. Z., & Siddharthan, A. (2014). Making test corpora for question answering more representative. In E. Kanoulas, M. Lupu, P. Clough, M. Sanderson, M. Hall, A. Hanbury, & E. Toms (Eds.), Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction : CLEF 2014. (pp. 1-6). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8685 LNCS). Springer-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11382-1_1

Making test corpora for question answering more representative. / Walker, Andrew; Starkey, Andrew ; Pan, Jeff Z.; Siddharthan, Advaith.

Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction : CLEF 2014. . ed. / Evangelos Kanoulas; Mihai Lupu; Paul Clough; Mark Sanderson; Mark Hall; Allan Hanbury; Elaine Toms. Springer-Verlag, 2014. p. 1-6 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8685 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Walker, A, Starkey, A , Pan, JZ & Siddharthan, A 2014, Making test corpora for question answering more representative. in E Kanoulas, M Lupu, P Clough, M Sanderson, M Hall, A Hanbury & E Toms (eds), Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction : CLEF 2014. . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 8685 LNCS, Springer-Verlag, pp. 1-6, 5th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2014, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 15/09/14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11382-1_1

Walker A, Starkey A , Pan JZ, Siddharthan A. Making test corpora for question answering more representative. In Kanoulas E, Lupu M, Clough P, Sanderson M, Hall M, Hanbury A, Toms E, editors, Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction : CLEF 2014. . Springer-Verlag. 2014. p. 1-6. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11382-1_1

Walker, Andrew ; Starkey, Andrew ; Pan, Jeff Z. ; Siddharthan, Advaith. / Making test corpora for question answering more representative. Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction : CLEF 2014. . editor / Evangelos Kanoulas ; Mihai Lupu ; Paul Clough ; Mark Sanderson ; Mark Hall ; Allan Hanbury ; Elaine Toms. Springer-Verlag, 2014. pp. 1-6 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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