The impact of corpus size on question answering performance

  • Authors:
  • C. L. A. Clarke;G. V. Cormack;M. Laszlo;T. R. Lynam;E. L. Terra

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Waterloo, Canada;University of Waterloo, Canada;University of Waterloo, Canada;University of Waterloo, Canada;University of Waterloo, Canada

  • Venue:
  • SIGIR '02 Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Using our question answering system, questions from the TREC 2001 evaluation were executed over a series of Web data collections, with the sizes of the collections increasing from 25 gigabytes up to nearly a terabyte.