Community question answering (cQA) websites are focused on users who query questions onto an online forum, expecting for other users to provide them answers or suggestions. Unlike other social media, the length of the posted queries has no limits and queries tend to be multi-sentence elaborations combining context, actual questions, and irrelevant information. We approach the problem of question ranking: given a user's new question, to retrieve those previously-posted questions which could be equivalent, or highly relevant. This could prevent the posting of nearly-duplicate questions and provide the user with instantaneous answers. For the first time in cQA, we address the selection of relevant text-both at sentence- and at constituent-level- for parse-tree-based representations. Our supervised models for text selection boost the performance of a tree kernel-based machine learning model, allowing it to overtake the current state of the art on a recently released cQA evaluation framework.

Barron-Cedeno A., Da San Martino G., Romeo S., Moschitti A. (2016). Selecting sentences versus selecting tree constituents for automatic question ranking. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology.

Selecting sentences versus selecting tree constituents for automatic question ranking

Barron-Cedeno A.;Da San Martino G.;
2016

Abstract

Community question answering (cQA) websites are focused on users who query questions onto an online forum, expecting for other users to provide them answers or suggestions. Unlike other social media, the length of the posted queries has no limits and queries tend to be multi-sentence elaborations combining context, actual questions, and irrelevant information. We approach the problem of question ranking: given a user's new question, to retrieve those previously-posted questions which could be equivalent, or highly relevant. This could prevent the posting of nearly-duplicate questions and provide the user with instantaneous answers. For the first time in cQA, we address the selection of relevant text-both at sentence- and at constituent-level- for parse-tree-based representations. Our supervised models for text selection boost the performance of a tree kernel-based machine learning model, allowing it to overtake the current state of the art on a recently released cQA evaluation framework.
2016
COLING 2016 - 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of COLING 2016: Technical Papers
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Barron-Cedeno A., Da San Martino G., Romeo S., Moschitti A. (2016). Selecting sentences versus selecting tree constituents for automatic question ranking. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL Anthology.
Barron-Cedeno A.; Da San Martino G.; Romeo S.; Moschitti A.
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