Readme file for Question Answering Data

First of all, two important points you should know:

1.  To obtain any of the data in this directory, you must first 
   sign the user agreement with NII (National Institute of Informatics)
    You can obtain the agreement form (in English or Japanese) at
    http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/permission/perm-ja.html
    http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/permission/perm-en.html

2. As stated clearly in the agreement, the question answering data were 
  developed using the Mainichi newspaper articles; however, they were developed 
  for the purpose of the NTCIR Workshop 3, and The Mainichi Newspaper Co. 
  is not responsible for their content.

Note:  Please check the details of the QAC tasks at
http://www.nlp.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp/qac/.


File Index
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(1) QAC1 Formal Run data

formalrun/
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	/answers:		Answer data
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		formalAnsTask1.csv.txt 		Task1		200 sets
		formalAnsTask1sj.csv.txt
		---------------------------------------------------------
		formalAnsTask2.csv.txt 		Task2		200 sets
		formalAnsTask2sj.csv.txt
		---------------------------------------------------------
		formalAnsTask3.csv.txt 		Task3		 40 sets
		formalAnsTask3sj.csv.txt
		---------------------------------------------------------
		memo.20020802.txt		update log, etc...
		---------------------------------------------------------

	/qac_scoring_150: 	Scoring tools
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		Readme_e.txt		Readme file(English)
		Readme_jp_euc.txt	Readme file(EUC)
		Readme_jp_sjis.txt	Readme file(Shift JIS)
		f_check.pl		Answer data format checker
		scoring.pl		Scoring tool(ver.1.50)

	/queries: 		Question data
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		task1.txt 			Task1		200 sets
		task1.sjis.txt
		---------------------------------------------------------
		task2.txt 			Task2		200 sets
		task2.sjis.txt
		---------------------------------------------------------
		task3.txt 			Task3		 40 sets
		task3.sjis.txt
		---------------------------------------------------------

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(2) QAC1 Additional Run data

addrun/
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	/qa_data:	Question Answering data (ver.0.30720)
	* This data includes all questions and answers.
        * All formal run and  additional run data has been included.
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		AllMakeQ.030720.dat	Question Answering data
		Readme.answer.txt	Readme file (English)
		ChangeLog.txt		Change log file
		---------------------------------------------------------

	/qac_scoring_300: 	Scoring tools
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		jcode.pl		Japanese code converter
		Readme_e.txt		Readme file (English)
		Readme_jp_euc.txt	Readme file (EUC)
		Readme_jp_sjis.txt	Readme file (Shift JIS)
		scoring.pl		Scoring tool (ver.3.00)
		---------------------------------------------------------

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QAC organizer		qac-admin@ai.info.mie-u.ac.jp
NTCIR-3 QAC Task	http://www.nlp.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp/qac/

QAC discussion ML (international)	qac@ai.info.mie-u.ac.jp
QAC discussion ML (in Japanese)	qac-j@ai.info.mie-u.ac.jp