Persuasive, authorative and topical answers for complex question answering

Azzopardi, Leif and Baillie, Mark and Ruthven, Ian; (2007) Persuasive, authorative and topical answers for complex question answering. In: The Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2007) Proceedings. NIST, USA.

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    Abstract

    The ciqa track investigates the role of interaction in answering complex questions: questions that relate two or more entities by some specified relationship. As in the ciqa 2006, our interest in ciqa 2007 was on contextual factors that may affect how answers are assessed. In ciqa 2006 we investigated factors such as topical knowledge or confidence in assessing answers through direct questioning – asking the ciqa assessors to directly estimate values for such variables using ordinal or categorical scales. In ciqa 2006 we found many useful relationships between personal contextual variables and how assessors judged answers. This year we were keen to follow this line of investigation, following a more specific research question: how do contextual variables affect the judgement of different types of information surrogate.

    Creators(s): Azzopardi, Leif, Baillie, Mark and Ruthven, Ian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6669-5376;
    Item type:Book Section
    ID code:62905
    Keywords:answering complex questions, ciqa, interaction, contextual factors, Library Science. Information Science, Electronic computers. Computer science, Library and Information Sciences, Computer Science(all)
    Subjects:Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Library Science. Information Science
    Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science
    Department:Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:16 Jan 2018 15:31
    Last modified:01 Apr 2020 00:11
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/62905
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