A syntactic tree matching approach to finding similar questions in community-based QA services

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 187-194

  Wang, Kai ^a   Ming, Zhaoyan ^a   Chua, Tat Seng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Question answering; Question matching; Syntactic structure; Yahoo! answer

Indexed keywords

GRAMMATICAL ERRORS; KERNEL BASED METHODS; MATCHING PROBLEMS; QA SYSTEM; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; RETRIEVAL FRAMEWORKS; SEMANTIC FEATURES; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE; SYNTACTIC TREES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; SYNTACTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 72449198046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1571975     Document Type: Conference Paper

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