An Answer Quality Evaluation Algorithm Based on Semantic in Community-Based Question Answering

Author(s):  
Mengtao Sun ◽  
Lei Liu ◽  
Hao Chen
2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaolin Zheng ◽  
Zhongkai Hu ◽  
Aiwu Xu ◽  
DeRen Chen ◽  
Kuang Liu ◽  
...  

Obtaining answers from community-based question answering (CQA) services is typically a lengthy process. In this light, the authors propose an algorithm that recommends answer providers. A two-step framework is developed, in which a query likelihood language model is constructed that enables the determination of the interests of answer providers. The model is then used to identify answer providers who are interested in answering questions related to the identified topics. At the same time, a maximum entropy model is designed to estimate answer quality. Finally, an answer-quality-based algorithm is developed to model the expertise of answer providers for the purpose of differentiating answer providers of various capacities. The proposed scheme leverages answer provider interest and expertise, allowing for more effective differentiation. Experiments on real-world data from Baidu Knows, a renowned Chinese CQA service similar to Yahoo! Answers, reveal significant improvements over the baseline methods, and test results demonstrate the effective of the novel approach.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizqa Raaiqa Bintana ◽  
Chastine Fatichah ◽  
Diana Purwitasari

Community-based question answering (CQA) is formed to help people who search information that they need through a community. One condition that may occurs in CQA is when people cannot obtain the information that they need, thus they will post a new question. This condition can cause CQA archive increased because of duplicated questions. Therefore, it becomes important problems to find semantically similar questions from CQA archive towards a new question. In this study, we use convolutional neural network methods for semantic modeling of sentence to obtain words that they represent the content of documents and new question. The result for the process of finding the same question semantically to a new question (query) from the question-answer documents archive using the convolutional neural network method, obtained the mean average precision value is 0,422. Whereas by using vector space model, as a comparison, obtained mean average precision value is 0,282. Index Terms—community-based question answering, convolutional neural network, question retrieval


Author(s):  
Xiao Yang ◽  
Madian Khabsa ◽  
Miaosen Wang ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Ahmed Hassan Awadallah ◽  
...  

Community-based question answering (CQA) websites represent an important source of information. As a result, the problem of matching the most valuable answers to their corresponding questions has become an increasingly popular research topic. We frame this task as a binary (relevant/irrelevant) classification problem, and present an adversarial training framework to alleviate label imbalance issue. We employ a generative model to iteratively sample a subset of challenging negative samples to fool our classification model. Both models are alternatively optimized using REINFORCE algorithm. The proposed method is completely different from previous ones, where negative samples in training set are directly used or uniformly down-sampled. Further, we propose using Multi-scale Matching which explicitly inspects the correlation between words and ngrams of different levels of granularity. We evaluate the proposed method on SemEval 2016 and SemEval 2017 datasets and achieves state-of-the-art or similar performance.


2018 ◽  
Vol 274 ◽  
pp. 3-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xian-Ling Mao ◽  
Yi-Jing Hao ◽  
Dan Wang ◽  
Heyan Huang

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