TREC Question Answering Track

The TREC Question Answering Track is a TREC Track that released benchmark QA tasks.

• AKA: TREC QA Track, TREC QA.
• Context:
  • The track started in TREC-8 (1999)
  • It ran ran from 1999 through 2007 with the intent to foster research on Question Answering Systems.
  • The track started on Factoid QA tasks.
  • Has also included List QA and Definition QA tasks.
• Example(s):
  • TREC-8 QA Track (TREC 1999 QA Track.
  • TREC-9 QA Track (TREC 2000 QA Track.
  • TREC 2001 QA Track.
  • TREC 2002 QA Track.
  • TREC 2003 QA Track.
  • TREC 2004 QA Track.
  • TREC 2005 QA Track.
  • TREC 2006 QA Track.
  • TREC 2007 QA Track.
• See: TREC LA Times Dataset.

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References

2008

• http://trec.nist.gov/data/qamain.html
  • A track designed to take a step closer to information retrieval rather than document retrieval. The QA track last ran in 2007.

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