Finding question-answer pairs from online forums

ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 467-474

  Cong, Gao ^a   Wang, Long ^b   Lin, Chin Yew ^c   Song, Young In ^d   Sun, Yueheng ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^d Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Classification; Graph based ranking; Information extraction; Labeled sequential patterns; Question answering

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

CLASSIFICATION; GRAPH BASED RANKING; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; LABELED SEQUENTIAL PATTERNS; QUESTION ANSWERING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 57349097210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390415     Document Type: Conference Paper

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