Implementing a Question Answering Evaluation (2000)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Dawn M. Tice
The most recent TREC workshop contained a track for evaluating domain-independent question answering (QA) systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, the track was used to investigate...
The TREC-8 question answering track evaluation (1999)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Dawn M. Tice
The TREC-8 Question Answering track was the first large-scale evaluation of systems that return answers, as opposed to lists of documents, in response to a question. As a first evaluation, it is...
D.: A Usability Case Study Using TREC and ZPrise (1999)
Laura L. Downey, Laura L. Downey, Dawn M. Tice, Dawn M. Tice
This paper examines the challenges involved in conducting an informal usability case study based on the introduction of a new information retrieval system to experienced users. We present a summary...
The TREC-8 question answering track evaluation (1999)
Ellen M. Voorhees, Dawn M. Tice
The TREC-8 Question Answering track was the first large-scale evaluation of systems that return answers, as opposed to lists of documents, in response to a question. As a first evaluation, it is...
Building a Question Answering Test Collection
Ellen M. Voorhees, Dawn M. Tice
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, the track was used to...