Language model based query classification

Authors:
Andreas Merkel;Dietrich Klakow
Affiliations:
Spoken Language Systems, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany;Spoken Language Systems, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Venue:
ECIR'07 Proceedings of the 29th European conference on IR research
Year:
2007

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a new way of using language models in query classification for question answering systems. We used a Bayes classifier as classification paradigm. Experimental results show that our approach outperforms current classification methods like Naive Bayes and SVM.