Title
Evidence finding using a collection of books
Abstract
This paper introduces the task of Evidence Finding, a novel information retrieval task that uses books - a traditionally more trust-worthy source of information - to help provide evidence to support a statement. What makes this evidence-finding task different from other tasks, such as the related INEX Prove It task, is that both the statement for which evidence is sought and its context are given to the search system. A practical application of this system is to provide supporting or refuting evidence from books for a statement made within a Wikipedia article, using the entire article as contextual support for query generation. We provide details of this task as well as an analysis of a number of retrieval methods that address this task.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2064058.2064063
BooksOnline
Keywords
Field
DocType
refuting evidence,evidence-finding task,practical application,query generation,retrieval method,evidence finding,search system,wikipedia article,contextual support,entire article,novel information retrieval task,information retrieval
World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Computer science
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.60
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marc-Allen Cartright1867.18
Henry A. Feild232918.08
James F. Allen399291631.65