Building Bridges across Social Platforms: Answering Twitter Questions with Yahoo! Answers
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Abstract
This paper investigates techniques for answering microblog questions by searching in a large community question answering website. Some question transformations are considered, some proprieties of the answering platform are examined, how to select among the various available configurations in a learning-to-rank framework is studied.
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August 2017
1476 pages
ISBN:9781450350228
DOI:10.1145/3077136
- General Chairs:
- Noriko Kando,
- Tetsuya Sakai,
- Hideo Joho,
- Program Chairs:
- Hang Li,
- Arjen P. de Vries,
- Ryen W. White
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Published: 07 August 2017
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- IBM
- Qatar National Research Fund
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SIGIR '17
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SIGIR '17: The 40th International ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval
August 7 - 11, 2017
Tokyo, Shinjuku, Japan
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SIGIR '17 Paper Acceptance Rate 78 of 362 submissions, 22%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 792 of 3,983 submissions, 20%
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