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| Title | Págico: Evaluating Wikipedia-based information retrieval in Portuguese |
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| Authors | Cristina Mota, Alberto Simões, Cláudia Freitas, Luís Costa and Diana Santos |
| Abstract | How do people behave in their everyday information seeking tasks, which often involve Wikipedia? Are there systems which can help them, or do a similar job? In this paper we describe Págico, an evaluation contest with the main purpose of fostering research in these topics. We describe its motivation, the collection of documents created, the evaluation setup, the topics chosen and their choice, the participation, as well as the measures used for evaluation and the gathered resources. The task―between information retrieval and question answering―can be further described as answering questions related to Portuguese-speaking culture in the Portuguese Wikipedia, in a number of different themes and geographic and temporal angles. This initiative allowed us to create interesting datasets and perform some assessment of Wikipedia, while also improving a public-domain open-source system for further wikipedia-based evaluations. In the paper, we provide examples of questions, we report the results obtained by the participants, and provide some discussion on complex issues. |
| Topics | Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Evaluation methodologies, Question Answering |
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Págico: Evaluating Wikipedia-based information retrieval in Portuguese |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{MOTA12.590, author = {Cristina Mota and Alberto Simões and Cláudia Freitas and Luís Costa and Diana Santos}, title = {Págico: Evaluating Wikipedia-based information retrieval in Portuguese}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |