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ACQUA : automated community-based question answering through the discretisation of shallow linguistic features
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Gkotsis, George, Liakata, Maria, Pedrinaci, Carlos and Stepanyan, Karen (2015) ACQUA : automated community-based question answering through the discretisation of shallow linguistic features. Journal of Web Science, 1 (1). pp. 1-15. doi:10.1561/106.00000001 ISSN 2332-4031.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/106.00000001
Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of determining the best answer in Community-based Question Answering (CQA) websites by focussing on the content. In particular, we present a novel system, ACQUA (http://acqua.kmi.open. ac.uk), that can be installed onto the majority of browsers as a plugin. The service offers a seamless and accurate prediction of the answer to be accepted. Our system is based on a novel approach for processing answers in CQAs. Previous research on this topic relies on the exploitation of community feedback on the answers, which involves rating of either users (e.g., reputation) or answers (e.g. scores manually assigned to answers). We propose a new technique that leverages the content/textual features of answers in a novel way. Our approach delivers better results than related linguistics-based solutions and manages to match rating-based approaches. More specifically, the gain in performance is achieved by rendering the values of these features into a discretised form. We also show how our technique manages to deliver equally good results in real-time settings, as opposed to having to rely on information not always readily available, such as user ratings and answer scores. We ran an evaluation on 21 StackExchange websites covering around 4 million questions and more than 8 million answers. We obtain 84% average precision and 70% recall, which shows that our technique is robust, effective, and widely applicable.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Web Science | ||||||
Publisher: | now publishers inc. | ||||||
ISSN: | 2332-4031 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | 1 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-15 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1561/106.00000001 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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