Exploring semi-automatic nugget extraction for Japanese one click access evaluation

Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, Virgil Pavlu, Makoto P. Kato, Tetsuya Sakai, Takehiro Yamamoto, Mayu Iwata

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Abstract

Building test collections based on nuggets is useful evaluating systems that return documents, answers, or summaries. However, nugget construction requires a lot of manual work and is not feasible for large query sets. Towards an efficient and scalable nugget-based evaluation, we study the applicability of semi-automatic nugget extraction in the context of the ongoing NTCIR One Click Access (1CLICK) task. We compare manually-extracted and semi-automatically- extracted Japanese nuggets to demonstrate the coverage and efficiency of the semi-automatic nugget extraction. Our findings suggest that the manual nugget extraction can be replaced with a direct adaptation of the English semi-automatic nugget extraction system, especially for queries for which the user desires broad answers from free-form text.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Pages749-752
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2013 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 2013 Jul 282013 Aug 1

Publication series

NameSIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Conference

Conference36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2013
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period13/7/2813/8/1

Keywords

  • Evaluation
  • Information units
  • NTCIR
  • Nuggets
  • Summaries
  • Test collections

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Information Systems

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