Sciweavers

ACL
2008

Using Conditional Random Fields to Extract Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums

14 years 19 days ago
Using Conditional Random Fields to Extract Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums
Online forum discussions often contain vast amounts of questions that are the focuses of discussions. Extracting contexts and answers together with the questions will yield not only a coherent forum summary but also a valuable QA knowledge base. In this paper, we propose a general framework based on Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to detect the contexts and answers of questions from forum threads. We improve the basic framework by Skip-chain CRFs and 2D CRFs to better accommodate the features of forums for better performance. Experimental results show that our techniques are very promising.
Shilin Ding, Gao Cong, Chin-Yew Lin, Xiaoyan Zhu
Added 29 Oct 2010
Updated 29 Oct 2010
Type Conference
Year 2008
Where ACL
Authors Shilin Ding, Gao Cong, Chin-Yew Lin, Xiaoyan Zhu
Comments (0)