Segmentation of multi-sentence questions: Towards effective question retrieval in cQA services

SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 387-394

  Wang, Kai ^a   Ming, Zhao Yan ^a   Hu, Xia ^a   Chua, Tat Seng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Question answering; Question matching; Question segmentation; Yahoo answers

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; GRAPH-BASED; INFORMATION NEED; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION MATCHING; QUESTION SEGMENTATION; RETRIEVAL FRAMEWORKS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SYNTACTIC FEATURES; TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS; USER STUDY; USER'S SATISFACTION; WORD REPRESENTATIONS; YAHOO ANSWERS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956018309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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