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Second Call for Participation
SMS-Based FAQ Retrieval
(at Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2011)
IIT Bombay, Mumbai
2-4 December 2011
http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire/faq-retrieval/faq-retrieval.html
The number of internet users in the world is estimated to be around 2
Billion.
However, in the developing world the number of internet users is a small
proportion of the total population. For example India, having nearly 17% of
the world population accounts for merely 81 million users (6.9 % of its
population). On the other hand, the number of telecom service users,
specifically mobile phone users in India is nearly 10 times larger than the
number of internet users.
The mobile phone is a cheap and easy device for communication and is
increasingly being used as a source of information. It is keeping this fact
in mind, that FIRE 2011 has included an "SMS based FAQ Retrieval" task.
The goal of this task is to find a question Q* from the corpora of FAQs
(Frequently asked questions) that best answers/matches the SMS query S.
SMS queries which are written in "SMS language" tend to be noisy as
users try and compress text by omitting letters, using slang, etc., due to
a cap on the length of messages (160 characters constitutes one SMS), lack
of screen space (which makes reading large amounts of text difficult), etc.
The messages also frequently contain unintended typographical errors due
to the small size of keypads on mobile phones as also the poor language
skills of the users. The presence of such noise makes this task different
and more challenging than traditional QA retrieval tasks.
The task comprises mono-, cross- and multi-lingual FAQ Retrieval
sub-tasks.
All participating teams also need to submit a working note that outlines
the approach followed by them. The Working note is due on November
28, 2011. The post-proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs), Springer.
Authors will be invited to submit a revised and expanded version of
their working note to be published in the post-proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES:
(http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire/faq-retrieval/dates.html)
Preview Data Released May 18 2011
Corpus released Jul 7 2011
Query release Aug 16 2011
Run submission Sep 01 2011
Qrel release Nov 15 2011
Working note due Nov 28 2011
TASK COORDINATORS:
Danish Contractor, [email protected]
Ankush Mittal, [email protected]
Deepak S Padmanabhan, [email protected]
LV Subramaniam, [email protected]
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