Overview of the NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 Shared Task: Open Domain Chinese Question Answering

In this paper, we give the overview of the open domain Question Answering (or open domain QA) shared task in the NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016. We first review the background of QA, and then describe two open domain Chinese QA tasks in this year’s NLPCC-ICCPOL, including the construction of the benchmark datasets and the evaluation metrics. The evaluation results of submissions from participating teams are presented in the experimental part.

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