title: Ranking Community Answers via Analogical Reasoning
creator: Tu, Xudong
creator: Wang, Xin-Jing
creator: Feng, Dan
creator: Zhang, Lei
description: Due to the lexical gap between questions and answers, automatically detecting right answers becomes very challenging for community question-answering sites. In this paper, we propose an analogical reasoning-based method. It treats questions and answers as relational data and ranks an answer by measuring the analogy of its link to a query with the links embedded in previous relevant knowledge; the answer that links in the most analogous way to the new question is assumed to be the best answer. We based our experiments on 29.8 million Yahoo!Answer questionanswer threads and showed the effectiveness of the approach.
date: 2009-04
type: Conference or Workshop Item
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://www2009.eprints.org/194/1/p1227.pdf
identifier: Tu, Xudong <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Tu=3AXudong=3A=3A.html> and Wang, Xin-Jing <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Wang=3AXin-Jing=3A=3A.html> and Feng, Dan <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Feng=3ADan=3A=3A.html> and Zhang, Lei <http://www2009.eprints.org/view/author/Zhang=3ALei=3A=3A.html> (2009) Ranking Community Answers via Analogical Reasoning. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain.
relation: http://www2009.eprints.org/194/