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title: "Experience with the Evaluation of Natural Language Question Answerers"
authors:
  - "Harry R. Tennant"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/192"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0192.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
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# Experience with the Evaluation of Natural Language Question Answerers

Harry R. Tennant

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## 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.