VectorSLU: A Continuous Word Vector Approach to Answer Selection in Community Question Answering Systems

Yonatan Belinkov, Mitra Mohtarami, Scott Cyphers, James Glass

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Abstract

Continuous word and phrase vectors have proven useful in a number of NLP tasks. Here we describe our experience using them as a source of features for the SemEval-2015 task 3, consisting of two community question answering subtasks: Answer Selection for categorizing answers as potential, good, and bad with regards to their corresponding questions; and YES/NO inference for predicting a yes, no, or unsure response to a YES/NO question using all of its good answers. Our system ranked 6th and 1st in the English answer selection and YES/NO inference subtasks respectively, and 2nd in the Arabic answer selection subtask.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSemEval 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 publicationHuman Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2015 - Proceedings
EditorsPreslav Nakov, Torsten Zesch, Daniel Cer, David Jurgens
Pages282-287
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781941643402
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2015 - Denver, United States
Duration: 4 Jun 20155 Jun 2015

Publication series

NameSemEval 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

Conference9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver
Period4/06/155/06/15

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language

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