Report from the NTCIR-10 1CLICK-2 Japanese subtask: Baselines, upperbounds and evaluation robustness

Makoto P. Kato, Tetsuya Sakai, Takehiro Yamamoto, Mayu Iwata

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Abstract

The One Click Access Task (1CLICK) of NTCIR requires systems to return a concise multi-document summary of web pages in response to a query which is assumed to have been submitted in a mobile context. Systems are evaluated based on information units (or iUnits), and are required to present important pieces of information first and to minimise the amount of text the user has to read. Using the official Japanese results of the second round of the 1CLICK task from NTCIR-10, we discuss our task setting and evaluation framework. Our analyses show that: (1) Simple baseline methods that leverage search engine snippets or Wikipedia are effective for "lookup" type queries but not necessarily for other query types; (2) There is still a substantial gap between manual and automatic runs; and (3) Our evaluation metrics are relatively robust to the incompleteness of iUnits.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Pages753-756
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
  • Mobile environment
  • NTCIR
  • Nuggets
  • Summaries
  • Test collections

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Information Systems

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