A classification-based approach to question answering in discussion boards

Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 171-178

  Hong, Liangjie ^a   Davison, Brian D ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Discussion boards; Online forums; Question answering

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; DATA SETS; DISCUSSION BOARDS; NON-TRIVIAL TASKS; ONLINE FORUMS; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; QUESTION ANSWERING; RELATED CONTENT; SUBTASKS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 72449140588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1571973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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