Contextual Information and Assessor Characteristics in Complex Question Answering

2 Variables under study In our participation in this year’s track we studied three groups of variables and selected relationships between these variables. The three groups of variables focus on variables relating to the assessors themselves (section 2.1.1), the questions set (section 2.1.2) and the answers presented (section 2.1.3). In this section we discuss the variables we selected and how we measured them. The majority of variables were investigated through the use of interaction forms – html forms presented to and completed by the answer assessors. Each form was required to be answered within three minutes.