Finding question-answer pairs from online forums

  • Authors:
  • Gao Cong;Long Wang;Chin-Yew Lin;Young-In Song;Yueheng Sun

  • Affiliations:
  • Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark;Tianjin University, Tianjin, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;Korea University, Seoul, South Korea;Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Online forums contain a huge amount of valuable user generated content. In this paper we address the problem of extracting question-answer pairs from forums. Question-answer pairs extracted from forums can be used to help Question Answering services (e.g. Yahoo! Answers) among other applications. We propose a sequential patterns based classification method to detect questions in a forum thread, and a graph based propagation method to detect answers for questions in the same thread. Experimental results show that our techniques are very promising.