Michigan State University at the 2007 TREC ciQA evaluation
Chen Zhang, Matthew S. Gerber, Tyler Baldwin, Steve Emelander, Joyce Yue Chai, Rong Jin · 2007
This is our first participation in the ciQA task. Instead of exploring conversation strategies in question answering [3, 4], we decided to focus on simple interaction strategies using relevance feedback. In our view, the ciQA task is not designed to evaluate user initiative interaction strategies. Since NIST assessors act as users, the motivation to take an initiative is lacking. It is not clear how to encourage the assessors to take