Finding question-answer pairs from online forums (2008)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the 31st SIGIR |
| Citations: | 17 - 5 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Cong08findingquestion-answer,
author = {Gao Cong and Long Wang and Chin-yew Lin and Young-in Song and Yueheng Sun},
title = {Finding question-answer pairs from online forums},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 31st SIGIR},
year = {2008},
pages = {467--474}
}
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Abstract
Online forums contain a huge amount of valuable user generated content. In this paper we address the problem of extracting question-answer pairs from forums. Question-answer pairs extracted from forums can be used to help Question Answering services (e.g. Yahoo! Answers) among other applications. We propose a sequential patterns based classification method to detect questions in a forum thread, and a graph based propagation method to detect answers for questions in the same thread. Experimental results show that our techniques are very promising.
