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清华大学计算机系 清华大学计算机系 Answer Generating Methods for Community Question and Answering Portals {Tao Haoxiong, Hao Yu, Zhu Xiaoyan} @Tsinghua University Outline Introduction and Related Work List-type Question Answer generating method Method result and analysis Solution-type Question Visible list Select the best list Experiment and analysis Conclusion Future Work Introduction Online community question answering (cQA) portals have become a popular way to acquire information, like Soso Wenwen and Baidu Zhidao. But they have some limitations: Can’t get answers in real-time. The quality of many answers is not high. Related Work To overcome unreal-time limitation, cQA portals support search service. Users need to click links to see the whole answers. Spend long time to find useful information. Related Work To return high-quality answers Predict the quality of cQA answers. User profile features, text features, etc. Use multi-document summarization to summarize answers. More comprehensive but less readable. To improve answer quality, almost all well-perform systems introduce a question taxonomy. Related Work The question taxonomy proposed by Fan Bu contains 6 question types: TYPE proportion List 23.8% Solution 19.7% Reason 18.1% Navigation 14.8% Fact 14.4% Definition 7.5% Examples: List-type: List Nobel prize winners in 1990s? Solution-type: How to make pizzas? Research Framework Propose answer generating methods for both List-type and Solution-type questions. List-type Question Each answer will be a single phrase or a list of phrases. Answer Generating Method Two characteristics about answers: “Best Answer” often don’t contain all answer points. Answer points which are high-quality or relevant to the question often appear in more than one answers. Propose a method based on clustering of answer points. Answer Generating Method Answer Generating Method Example of the Method Result Method Result and Analysis Result contains more answer points than “Best Answer”.