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 4, 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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        Removed Artocles 
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        yomiuri_9899_abnormal_2422_Readme.txt
        yomiuri_9899_abnormal_2422_records.txt
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	/ans_ver130:		Answer data(ver. 1.3.0)
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		QAC2formalAnsTask1_041105.euc.csv.txt	subtask1 200 sets
		QAC2formalAnsTask1_041105.sjis.csv.txt	subtask1 200 sets
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		QAC2formalAnsTask2_041105.euc.csv.txt	subtask2 200 sets
		QAC2formalAnsTask2_041105.sjis.csv.txt	subtask2 200 sets
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		QAC2formalAnsTask3_040323.euc.csv.txt	subtask3 251 sets
		QAC2formalAnsTask3_040323.sjis.csv.txt	subtask3 251 sets
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		QAC2formalAnsTask3_040323.memo.txt	subtask3 memo
		ANLPD2-6.040913.pdf	Manual(in proceedings of NLP2004)
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	/qac_scoring_330: 	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)
		jcode.pl		Japanese code converter
		scoring.pl		Scoring tool(ver.3.30)

	/queries: 		Question data
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		QAC2-task1.euc 			subtask1	200 sets
		QAC2-task1.sjis
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		QAC2-task2.euc 			subtask2	200 sets
		QAC2-task2.sjis
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		QAC2-task3.euc 			subtask3	251 sets
		QAC2-task3.sjis
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	        /translated: 		translated data in English
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			QAC2task1English.doc		subtask1
			QAC2task2English.doc		subtask2


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QAC organizer		qac-admin@ai.info.mie-u.ac.jp
NTCIR-4 QAC2 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

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