QCRI: Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiments for Arabic and English

Massimo Nicosia; Simone Filice; Alberto Barrón-Cedeño; Iman Saleh; Hamdy Mubarak; Wei Gao; Preslav Nakov; Giovanni da San Martino; Alessandro Moschitti; Kareem Darwish; Lluís Màrquez; Shafiq Joty; Walid Magdy

doi:10.18653/v1/s15-2160

QCRI: Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiments for Arabic and English

Massimo Nicosia
, Simone Filice
, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño
, Iman Saleh
, Hamdy Mubarak
, Wei Gao
, Preslav Nakov
, Giovanni da San Martino
, Alessandro Moschitti
, Kareem Darwish
, Lluís Màrquez
, Shafiq Joty
, Walid Magdy

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

48 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This paper describes QCRI's participation in SemEval-2015 Task 3 “Answer Selection in Community Question Answering”, which targeted real-life Web forums, and was offered in both Arabic and English. We apply a supervised machine learning approach considering a manifold of features including among others word n-grams, text similarity, sentiment analysis, the presence of specific words, and the context of a comment. Our approach was the best performing one in the Arabic subtask and the third best in the two English subtasks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publication	Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings
Editors	Preslav Nakov, Torsten Zesch, Daniel Cer, David Jurgens
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	203-209
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781941643402
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/s15-2160
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2015 co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Denver, United States Duration: 4 Jun 2015 → 5 Jun 2015

Publication series

Name	SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference	9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2015 co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	4/06/15 → 5/06/15

Access to Document

10.18653/v1/s15-2160

Cite this

Nicosia, M., Filice, S., Barrón-Cedeño, A., Saleh, I., Mubarak, H., Gao, W., Nakov, P., da San Martino, G., Moschitti, A., Darwish, K., Màrquez, L., Joty, S., & Magdy, W. (2015). QCRI: Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiments for Arabic and English. In P. Nakov, T. Zesch, D. Cer, & D. Jurgens (Eds.), SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings (pp. 203-209). (SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/s15-2160

Nicosia, Massimo ; Filice, Simone ; Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto et al. / QCRI : Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiments for Arabic and English. SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings. editor / Preslav Nakov ; Torsten Zesch ; Daniel Cer ; David Jurgens. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2015. pp. 203-209 (SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings).

@inproceedings{a4d50c8fffbe4c84b134a6c8390bf42d,

title = "QCRI: Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiments for Arabic and English",

abstract = "This paper describes QCRI's participation in SemEval-2015 Task 3 “Answer Selection in Community Question Answering”, which targeted real-life Web forums, and was offered in both Arabic and English. We apply a supervised machine learning approach considering a manifold of features including among others word n-grams, text similarity, sentiment analysis, the presence of specific words, and the context of a comment. Our approach was the best performing one in the Arabic subtask and the third best in the two English subtasks.",

author = "Massimo Nicosia and Simone Filice and Alberto Barr{\'o}n-Cede{\~n}o and Iman Saleh and Hamdy Mubarak and Wei Gao and Preslav Nakov and \{da San Martino\}, Giovanni and Alessandro Moschitti and Kareem Darwish and Llu{\'i}s M{\`a}rquez and Shafiq Joty and Walid Magdy",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 Association for Computational Linguistics; 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2015 co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 ; Conference date: 04-06-2015 Through 05-06-2015",

year = "2015",

doi = "10.18653/v1/s15-2160",

language = "English",

series = "SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings",

publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",

pages = "203--209",

editor = "Preslav Nakov and Torsten Zesch and Daniel Cer and David Jurgens",

booktitle = "SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics",

address = "United States",

}

Nicosia, M, Filice, S, Barrón-Cedeño, A, Saleh, I, Mubarak, H, Gao, W, Nakov, P, da San Martino, G, Moschitti, A, Darwish, K, Màrquez, L, Joty, S & Magdy, W 2015, QCRI: Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiments for Arabic and English. in P Nakov, T Zesch, D Cer & D Jurgens (eds), SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings. SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 203-209, 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2015 co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015, Denver, United States, 4/06/15. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/s15-2160

QCRI: Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiments for Arabic and English. / Nicosia, Massimo; Filice, Simone; Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto et al.
SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings. ed. / Preslav Nakov; Torsten Zesch; Daniel Cer; David Jurgens. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2015. p. 203-209 (SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

TY - GEN

T1 - QCRI

T2 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2015 co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015

AU - Nicosia, Massimo

AU - Filice, Simone

AU - Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto

AU - Saleh, Iman

AU - Mubarak, Hamdy

AU - Gao, Wei

AU - Nakov, Preslav

AU - da San Martino, Giovanni

AU - Moschitti, Alessandro

AU - Darwish, Kareem

AU - Màrquez, Lluís

AU - Joty, Shafiq

AU - Magdy, Walid

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - This paper describes QCRI's participation in SemEval-2015 Task 3 “Answer Selection in Community Question Answering”, which targeted real-life Web forums, and was offered in both Arabic and English. We apply a supervised machine learning approach considering a manifold of features including among others word n-grams, text similarity, sentiment analysis, the presence of specific words, and the context of a comment. Our approach was the best performing one in the Arabic subtask and the third best in the two English subtasks.

AB - This paper describes QCRI's participation in SemEval-2015 Task 3 “Answer Selection in Community Question Answering”, which targeted real-life Web forums, and was offered in both Arabic and English. We apply a supervised machine learning approach considering a manifold of features including among others word n-grams, text similarity, sentiment analysis, the presence of specific words, and the context of a comment. Our approach was the best performing one in the Arabic subtask and the third best in the two English subtasks.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85122005455

U2 - 10.18653/v1/s15-2160

DO - 10.18653/v1/s15-2160

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85122005455

T3 - SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings

SP - 203

EP - 209

BT - SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

A2 - Nakov, Preslav

A2 - Zesch, Torsten

A2 - Cer, Daniel

A2 - Jurgens, David

PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

Y2 - 4 June 2015 through 5 June 2015

ER -

Nicosia M, Filice S, Barrón-Cedeño A, Saleh I, Mubarak H, Gao W et al. QCRI: Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiments for Arabic and English. In Nakov P, Zesch T, Cer D, Jurgens D, editors, SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2015. p. 203-209. (SemEval 2015 - 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, co-located with the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings). doi: 10.18653/v1/s15-2160

QCRI: Answer Selection for Community Question Answering - Experiments for Arabic and English

Abstract

Publication series

Conference

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this