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Chinese Question Retrieval System Using Dependency Information

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Active Media Technology (AMT 2010)

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Discussion boards and online forums provide a platform for users to share ideas, discuss issues and communicate with each other. Nowadays most of the discussion boards are used as problem-solving platforms which can be seen as question-answering knowledge bases. Therefore, if system can automatically locate the similar questions which have appeared previously, then the same answers could be returned to users to eliminate the time users wait for. In this paper, a novel question retrieval method is proposed. Keywords based inverted index is chosen as the basis technology, and dependency information, language model, and simple semantic information is used to extend it. Experimental results show the effectiveness and benefits of our approach.

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  1. Department of Information Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, 050018, China

    Jing Qiu

  2. School of Computer Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing Laboratory of Intelligent Information Technology, Beijing, 100081, China

    Le Jian-Liao

  3. Division of Student Affairs, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, 050018, China

    Jun Kang-Hao

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University, M3J 1P3, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Aijun An

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Saint Mary’s University, B3H 3C3, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Pawan Lingras

  3. Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Parkway, S4S 0A2, Regina, SK, Canada

    Sheila Petty

  4. Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Hosei University, 3-7-2, Kajino-cho, Koganei-shi, 184-8584, Tokyo, Japan

    Runhe Huang

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Qiu, J., Jian-Liao, L., Kang-Hao, J. (2010). Chinese Question Retrieval System Using Dependency Information. In: An, A., Lingras, P., Petty, S., Huang, R. (eds) Active Media Technology. AMT 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15470-6_30

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