TY  - CONF
ID  - www2009194
UR  - http://www2009.eprints.org/194/
A1  - Tu, Xudong
A1  - Wang, Xin-Jing
A1  - Feng, Dan
A1  - Zhang, Lei
Y1  - 2009/04//
N2  - 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.
TI  - Ranking Community Answers via Analogical Reasoning
SP  - 1227
M2  - Madrid, Spain
AV  - public
EP  - 1227
T2  - 18th International World Wide Web Conference
ER  -