Category-specific models for ranking effective paraphrases in community Question Answering

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 4730-4742

  Figueroa, Alejandro ^a,b   Neumann, Günter ^c  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

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

Author keywords

Community based Question Answering; Learning to rank; Question categories; Question paraphrases

Indexed keywords

CATEGORY SPECIFICS; COMMUNITY QUESTION ANSWERING; COMMUNITY-BASED QUESTION ANSWERING; INFORMATION SEEKING; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; LEARNING TO RANK; QUESTION CATEGORIES; QUESTION PARAPHRASES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84897775650     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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