Understanding user intent in Community Question Answering

WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 823-828

  Chen, Long ^a   Zhang, Dell ^a   Levene, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Co training; Community Question Answering; Semi supervised learning; User intent

Indexed keywords

CO-TRAINING; PREDICTIVE MODELS; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION CLASSIFICATION; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; SYSTEM IDENTIFY; USER INTENT;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; METADATA; SEARCH ENGINES; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84861081144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2187980.2188206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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