YUVAL PINTER

This is the second year that we ran the LiveQA track, reviving the popular QA track which has been frozen for several years. The track attracted significant attention from the Question Answering research community; 14 teams from around the world took the challenge of answering complex YA questions with original intent of being answered by humans. The quality of results is still below the human level, but is improving compared to previous year. The question summarization task is far from solved. Our plan is to run the LiveQA challenge next year, thus allowing the participants to further improve and extend their systems. We hope that additional teams will join this joint research effort of answering real users’ questions in real-time.