Overview of the NLPCC-ICCPOL 2016 shared task: Open domain Chinese question answering

Abstract

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.