Benchmarking question answering systems

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Authors

  • Ricardo Usbeck
  • Michael Röder
  • Michael Hoffmann
  • Felix Conrads
  • Jonathan Huthmann
  • Axel Cyrille Ngonga-Ngomo
  • Christian Demmler
  • Christina Unger

The necessity of making the Semantic Web more accessible for lay users, alongside the uptake of interactive systems and smart assistants for the Web, have spawned a new generation of RDF-based question answering systems. However, fair evaluation of these systems remains a challenge due to the different type of answers that they provide. Hence, repeating current published experiments or even benchmarking on the same datasets remains a complex and time-consuming task. We present a novel online benchmarking platform for question answering (QA) that relies on the FAIR principles to support the fine-grained evaluation of question answering systems. We detail how the platform addresses the fair benchmarking platform of question answering systems through the rewriting of URIs and URLs. In addition, we implement different evaluation metrics, measures, datasets and pre-implemented systems as well as methods to work with novel formats for interactive and non-interactive benchmarking of question answering systems. Our analysis of current frameworks shows that most of the current frameworks are tailored towards particular datasets and challenges but do not provide generic models. In addition, while most frameworks perform well in the annotation of entities and properties, the generation of SPARQL queries from annotated text remains a challenge.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftSemantic Web
Jahrgang10
Ausgabenummer2
Seiten (von - bis)293-304
Anzahl der Seiten12
ISSN1570-0844
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 2019
Extern publiziertJa

Bibliographische Notiz

Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within Eurostars, a joint programme of EUREKA and the European Community under the project E!9367 DIESEL and E!9725 QAMEL as well as the European Union's H2020 research and innovation action HOBBIT (GA 688227). We thank the QANARY team for inspiring discussions. Furthermore, we want to thank Jin-Dong Kim for his thoughts on the novel QA format. We also want to acknowledge that this project has been supported by the BMVI projects LIMBO (project no. 19F2029C) and OPAL (project no. 19F20284) as well as by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within 'KMU-innovativ: Forschung für die zivile Sicherheit' in particular 'Forschung für die zivile Sicherheit' and the project SOLIDE (no. 13N14456).

Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within Eurostars, a joint programme of EUREKA and the European Community under the

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