The use of categorization information in language models for question retrieval

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 265-274

  Cao, Xin ^a   Cong, Gao ^a   Cui, Bin ^b   Jensen, Christian Søndergaard ^a   Zhang, Ce ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Categorization; Category language models; Language models; Question search; Question answering services

Indexed keywords

BASELINE METHODS; BODY OF KNOWLEDGE; INFORMATION NEED; INFORMATION RESOURCE; LANGUAGE MODEL; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION-ANSWER PAIRS; TYPE OF SERVICES; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 74549204548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1645989     Document Type: Conference Paper

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