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  <Title>Handling Information Access Dialogue through QA Technologies - A novel challenge for open-domain question answering -</Title>
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7 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A novel challenge, QACIAD (Question Answering Challenge for Information Access Dialogues), was proposed for evaluating the abilities for handling information access dialogues through open-domain question answer3Personal communication with Dr. Ellen Voorhees.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> ing technologies. Question answering systems with such abilities measured by this challenge are expected to be useful for making reports and summaries. The proposed challenge has reasonable difficulties with existing technologies. Our proposal also has several important ideas, including the distinction of series of questions into gathering type and browsing type series, and the introduction of reference test sets for extracting and evaluating the context processing abilities of the systems.</Paragraph>
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