The impact of corpus size on question answering performance

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Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval table of contents

Tampere, Finland

POSTER SESSION: Poster session table of contents

Pages: 369 - 370

Year of Publication: 2002

ISBN:1-58113-561-0

Authors

C. L. A. Clarke	University of Waterloo, Canada
G. V. Cormack	University of Waterloo, Canada
M. Laszlo	University of Waterloo, Canada
T. R. Lynam	University of Waterloo, Canada
E. L. Terra	University of Waterloo, Canada

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SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Using our question answering system, questions from the TREC 2001 evaluation were executed over a series of Web data collections, with the sizes of the collections increasing from 25 gigabytes up to nearly a terabyte.

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