Sciweavers

27 search results - page 1 / 6
» Improved answer ranking in social question-answering portals
Sort
View
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Improved answer ranking in social question-answering portals
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Felix Hieber, Stefan Riezler
IRI
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Biological question answering with syntactic and semantic feature matching and an improved mean reciprocal ranking measurement
Specific information on biomolecular events such as protein-protein and gene-protein interactions is essential for molecular biology researchers. However, the results derived by c...
Ryan T. K. Lin, Justin Liang-Te Chiu, Hong-Jie Dai...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Rank learning for factoid question answering with linguistic and semantic constraints
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Learning to recognize reliable users and content in social media with coupled mutual reinforcement
Community Question Answering (CQA) has emerged as a popular forum for users to pose questions for other users to answer. Over the last few years, CQA portals such as Naver and Yah...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Ding Zhou, Eugene Agichte...