Question Retrieval with Distributed Representations and Participant Reputation in Community Question Answering

Sam Weng ； Chun-Kai Wu ； Yu-Chun Wang ； Richard Tzong-Han Tsai

《中文計算語言學期刊》 22卷2期 (2017/12) Pp. 17-29

摘要

In recent years, community-based question and answer (CQA) sites have grown rapidly in number and size. These sites represent a valuable source of online knowledge; however, they often suffer from the problem of duplicate questions. The task of question retrieval (QR) aims to find previously answered semantically similar questions in CQA archives. Nevertheless, synonymous lexical variations pose a big challenge for question retrieval. Some QR approaches address this issue by calculating the probability of correlation between new questions and archived questions. Much recent research has also focused on surface string similarity among questions. In this paper, we propose a method that first builds a continuous bag-of-words (CBoW) model with data from Asus's Republic of Gamers (ROG) forum and then determines the similarity between a given new question and the Q&As in our database. Unlike most other methods, we calculate the similarity between the given question and the archived questions and descriptions separately with two different features. In addition, we factor user reputation into our ranking model. Our experimental results on the ROG forum dataset show that our CBoW model with reputation features outperforms other top methods.

關鍵字

Question Retrieval ； QR ； Community-based Question and Answer ； CQA

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