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In this paper we discuss evaluation of information retrieval, Web search and question answering systems, paving the way for the organization of an evaluation contest on IR for Portuguese. Inspired by current international setups, we motivate the need to study the specific problems posed by Portuguese, suggesting a collection suitable for multiple tasks.
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Aires, R., Aluísio, S., Quaresma, P., Santos, D., Silva, M.J. (2003). An Initial Proposal for Cooperative Evaluation on Information Retrieval in Portuguese. In: Mamede, N.J., Trancoso, I., Baptista, J., das Graças Volpe Nunes, M. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2721. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45011-4_36
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