A utility-driven approach to question ranking in social QA

Coling 2010 - 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 125-133

  Bunescu, Razvan ^a   Huang, Yunfeng ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; PARTIAL ORDER RELATION; RELATIVE UTILITY; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; UTILITY FUNCTIONS;

DATA PROCESSING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80053236808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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