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Finding similar questions in large question and answer archives

J. Jeon,W. Bruce Croft,J. Lee

2005 · DOI: 10.1145/1099554.1099572
International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management · 480 Citations

TLDR

Methods for question retrieval that are based on using the similarity between answers in the archive to estimate probabilities for a translation-based retrieval model are discussed and it is shown that with this model it is possible to find semantically similar questions with relatively little word overlap.