Abstract
Previous approaches to question retrieval in communitybased question answering rely on statistical translation techniques to match users' questions (queries) against collections of previously asked questions. This paper presents a simple but effective method for computing word relatedness to improve question retrieval based on word co-occurrence information directly extracted from question and answer archives. Experimental results show that the proposed approach significantly outperforms translation-based approaches.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 736-739 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems |
Volume | E92-D |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- Community question answering
- Question retrieval
- Word semantic relatedness
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence