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In this paper we propose a new way of using language models in query classification for question answering systems. We used a Bayes classifier as classification paradigm. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms current classification methods like Naive Bayes and SVM.
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Merkel, A., Klakow, D. (2007). Language Model Based Query Classification. In: Amati, G., Carpineto, C., Romano, G. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4425. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_77
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