Ranking community answers by modeling question-answer relationships via analogical reasoning

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 179-186

  Wang, Xin Jing ^a   Tu, Xudong ^b   Feng, Dan ^b   Zhang, Lei ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Analogical reasoning; Community question answering; Probabilistic relational modeling; Ranking

Indexed keywords

ANALOGICAL REASONING; HIGH QUALITY; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; REDUNDANT FEATURES; RELATIONAL DATA; RELATIONAL MODELING; SEMANTIC GAP; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; USER SATISFACTION; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SPAMMING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 72449181697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1571974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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