Dear participants,
In order to test your QA system, please register your server url in the following form: RegistrationForm. We intend to invoke the testing system from March 29, 2016, two times a week (please follow the track's calendar for specific dates). The system will run continuously, modulo maintenance time periods, until May 31 (when the official test time begins).
The testing system, when running, will periodically call all (on-line) registered servers with new coming questions to Yahoo Answer site. We will start with a low submission rate of 1 question per 5 minutes. The rate will increase up to 1 question per minute during time. All questions will belong to the categories to be announced. The testing system will collect all retrieved answers and will keep them internally. We do not intend to publish or analyze any of the answers recorded during the testing phase - we will only provide a feedback to participants if there is any problem with their server in terms of network connections, answer format, etc. You are welcome to use the stream of new provided questions, which is the optimal sample for the questions you will be officially tested on, to train your system, following Yahoo terms of service of-course:Â https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/terms/utos/index.htm.
Please hurry up to register.