Features of documents relevant to task- and fact- oriented questions

Diane Kelly, Vanessa Murdock, Xiao Jun Yuan, W. Bruce Croft, Nicholas J. Belkin

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Abstract

We describe results from an ongoing project that considers question types and document features and their relationship to retrieval techniques. We examine eight document features from the top 25 documents retrieved from 74 questions and find that lists and FAQs occur in more documents judged relevant to task-oriented questions that those judged relevant to fact-oriented questions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages645-647
Number of pages3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002
EventProceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2002) - McLean, VA, United States
Duration: Nov 4 2002Nov 9 2002

Other

OtherProceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2002)
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMcLean, VA
Period11/4/0211/9/02

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Decision Sciences(all)
  • Business, Management and Accounting(all)

Keywords

  • Query classification
  • Question types
  • Task-oriented questions

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