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Despite two high profile series of challenges devoted to question answering technologies there remains no formal study into the representativeness that question corpora bear to real end-user inputs. We examine the corpora used presently and historically in the TREC and QALD challenges in juxtaposition with two more from natural sources and identify a degree of disjointedness between the two. We analyse these differences in depth before discussing a candidate approach to question corpora generation and provide a juxtaposition on its own representativeness. We conclude that these artificial corpora have good overall coverage of grammatical structures but the distribution is skewed, meaning performance measures may be inaccurate.
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Walker, A., Starkey, A., Pan, J.Z., Siddharthan, A. (2014). Making Test Corpora for Question Answering More Representative. In: Kanoulas, E., et al. Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. CLEF 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8685. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11382-1_1
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