{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Experience with the Evaluation of Natural Language Question Answerers","authors":[{"name":"Harry R. Tennant","slug":"harry-r-tennant","given":"Harry R.","family":"Tennant","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Research in natural language processing could be facilitated by thorough and criti cal evaluations of natural language systems. Two measurements, conceptual and lingu i s tic completeness, are defined and discussed in this paper. Testing done on two natural langu a ge question answerers demonstrated that the conceptual coverage of such systems should be extend ed to better satisfy the needs and expectations of users.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/192","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0192.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/192.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/bibtex/192","volume":{"slug":"1979","title":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1979","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/","year":1979,"location":"Tokyo, Japan","dates":"August 20-23, 1979","editors":"Bruce G. Buchanan","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":192,"pages":{"first":null,"last":null},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}