Wiqa: Evaluating Multi-Lingual Focused Access to Wikipedia

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Wiqa: Evaluating Multi-Lingual Focused Access to Wikipedia
Authors
Valentin Jijkoun
Maarten de Rijke
Publication date
2007
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Wiqa: Evaluating Multi-Lingual Focused Access to Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2007, written by Valentin Jijkoun and Maarten de Rijke.

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Authors describe experience with WiQA 2006, a pilot task aimed at studying question answering using Wikipedia. Going beyond traditional factoid questions, the task considered at WiQA 2006 was to identify—given an source article from Wikipedia—snippets from other Wikipedia articles, possibly in languages different from the language of the source article, that add new and important information to the source article, and that do so without repetition. A total of 7 teams took part, submitting 20 runs. Authors main findings are two-fold: (i) while challenging, the tasks considered at WiQA are do-able as participants achieved precision@10 scores in the .5 range and MRR scores upwards of .5; (ii) on the bilingual task, substantially higher scores were achieved than on the monolingual tasks.

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