The factoid queries collection

Ido Guy, Dan Pelleg

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Abstract

We present a collection of over 15,000 queries, issued to commercial web search engines, whose answer is a single fact. The collection was produced based on queries landing on questions within a large community question answering website, each with a best answer no longer than 3 words and an explicit reference to a Wikipedia page. We describe the collection generation process and provide a variety of descriptive characteristics, demonstrating the collection's uniqueness compared to existing datasets and its potential use for research of factoid question answering and retrieval.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages717-720
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450342902
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Jul 2016
Event39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016 - Pisa, Italy
Duration: 17 Jul 201621 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameSIGIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Conference

Conference39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityPisa
Period17/07/1621/07/16

Keywords

  • Dataset
  • Fact retrieval
  • Factoid question answering

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Software

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