QA with attitude: Exploiting opinion type analysis for improving question answering in online discussions and the news

ICWSM 2007 - International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Somasundaran, Swapna ^a   Wilson, Theresa ^b   Wiebe, Janyce ^a   Stoyanov, Veselin ^c  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFIERS; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; QUESTION ANSWERING; TYPE ANALYSIS; WEB-BASED DISCUSSION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84893388959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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