Learning to rank effective paraphrases from query logs for community question answering

Proceedings of the 27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1099-1105

  Figueroa, Alejandro ^a   Neumann, Günter ^b  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; COMMUNITY QUESTION ANSWERING; CROSS VALIDATION; INDEPENDENT LEARNING; LEARNING TO RANK; MEAN RECIPROCAL RANKS; RANKING FUNCTIONS; RANKING QUERIES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84893382586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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