Computing Word Semantic Relatedness for Question Retrieval in Community Question Answering

Jung-Tae LEE  Young-In SONG  Hae-Chang RIM 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems  Vol.E92-D  No.4  pp.736-739
Publication Date: 2009/04/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Contents Technology and Web Information Systems
Keyword: 
question retrieval,  community question answering,  word semantic relatedness, 

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Summary: 
Previous approaches to question retrieval in community-based question answering rely on statistical translation techniques to match users' questions (queries) against collections of previously asked questions. This paper presents a simple but effective method for computing word relatedness to improve question retrieval based on word co-occurrence information directly extracted from question and answer archives. Experimental results show that the proposed approach significantly outperforms translation-based approaches.