Structural relationships for large-scale learning of answer re-ranking

SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 741-750

  Severyn, Aliaksei ^a   Moschitti, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

kernel methods; large scale learning; question answering; structural kernels; support vector machines

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FEATURE SPACE; KERNEL METHODS; KERNEL-BASED LEARNING; LARGE-SCALE LEARNING; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; RE-RANKING; RELATIONAL STRUCTURES; STEEP LEARNING CURVE; STRUCTURAL KERNELS; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP; STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATION; SYNTACTIC PARSERS; SYNTACTIC TREES; TRAINING SIZE; TREE KERNELS;

FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84866604545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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