A generalized framework of exploring category information for question retrieval in community question answer archives

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 201-210

  Cao, Xin ^a   Cong, Gao ^a,b   Cui, Bin ^c   Jensen, Christian S ^a,d  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

categorization; question retrieval; question answering services

Indexed keywords

BASELINE METHODS; NEW APPROACHES; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION-ANSWER PAIRS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; TYPE OF SERVICES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77954566545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1772690.1772712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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