Question Answering Challenge (QAC-1): An Evaluation of Question Answering Task at NTCIRWorkshop 3.
Junichi Fukumoto, Tsuneaki Kato, Fumito Masui · 2002
In this paper we describe a question answering task, called Question Answering Challenge (QAC), and its first evaluation (QAC1). This was carried out as a task of NTCIR Workshop 3 in October 2002. In QAC, we aimed to encourage the development of practical QA systems in a general domain and focus on research of user interaction and information extraction. Developments of evaluation method of question answering system and information resources for evaluation were also purpose of QAC.