Dear LiveQA participants
You have received this message as a result of being on the Trec LiveQA 2016 participants mailing list. This message serves as an introduction to track.
Please follow the LiveQA form: trecliveqa2016/home where all instructions and correspondence will be delivered and maintained.
Please note that we have set the official run-day in this year to May 31. The training dry-runs will begin at March 29, twice a week. Please look at the track's calendar (in the track's home-page) for the specific dates and times.
Please register your server url in the following RegistrationForm.
For more detail: https://sites.google.com/site/trecliveqa2016/liveqa-2016---registration-form
The track's main task of answering liveQAs from Yahoo Answers will be similar to previous year. For more details, see the CFP: https://sites.google.com/site/trecliveqa2016/call-for-participation. In addition to the main task, we have added a new optional task this year of question understanding, where participants should identify a span (or a list of spans) within the question title and body, marking the essential parts of the question.
You can download and freely use the open-source code, as provided by our team, for the skeleton server:
https://github.com/yuvalpinter/LiveQAServerDemo
In order to implement your API, to be called by the testing system during the dry runs and in May 31, overwrite the method:
protected AnswerAndResourcesAndSummaries getAnswerAndResources(String qid, String title, String body, String category) of the class TrecLiveQaDemoServer.
This method gets as input the Yahoo ID of the question (qid), the title, body and category of the question, and returns an AnswerResourcesAndSummaries object that encapsulates your system answer as well as all used sources. The AnswerAndResourcesAndSummaries object has been expanded to include the list of spans and the free text, to be used for the second task by interested participants.
We wish you all the best and good luck with your LiveQA task.
David (on behalf of all track's coordinators)