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A generalized framework of exploring category information for question retrieval in community question answer archives

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WWW '10: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web

Pages 201 - 210

https://doi.org/10.1145/1772690.1772712

Published: 26 April 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Community Question Answering (CQA) has emerged as a popular type of service where users ask and answer questions and access historical question-answer pairs. CQA archives contain very large volumes of questions organized into a hierarchy of categories. As an essential function of CQA services, question retrieval in a CQA archive aims to retrieve historical question-answer pairs that are relevant to a query question. In this paper, we present a new approach to exploiting category information of questions for improving the performance of question retrieval, and we apply the approach to existing question retrieval models, including a state-of-the-art question retrieval model. Experiments conducted on real CQA data demonstrate that the proposed techniques are capable of outperforming a variety of baseline methods significantly.

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WWW '10: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web

April 2010

1407 pages

ISBN:9781605587998

DOI:10.1145/1772690

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North Carolina State University, USA
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Paul Jones
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
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University of Utah, USA
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Indian Institute of Technology, India

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