Learning the relative usefulness of questions in community QA

EMNLP 2010 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 97-107

  Bunescu, Razvan ^a   Huang, Yunfeng ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE-LEARNING; PARTIAL ORDER RELATION; RANKING MODEL; RELATIVE UTILITY; SIMILARITY MEASURE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053262806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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