CoCQA: Co-training over questions and answers with an application to predicting question subjectivity orientation

EMNLP 2008 - 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 937-946

  Li, Baoli ^a   Liu, Yandong ^a   Agichtein, Eugene ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TASKS; CO-TRAINING; ILL POSED; INTELLIGENT PROCESSING; LABELED TRAINING DATA; OBJECTIVE INFORMATION; QUESTION ANALYSIS; QUESTION ANSWERING; UNLABELED DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053369518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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