Preferred Answer Selection in Stack Overflow: Better Text Representations ... and Metadata, Metadata, Metadata

Steven Xu, Andrew Bennett, Doris Hoogeveen, Jey Han Lau, Timothy Baldwin

Abstract
Community question answering (cQA) forums provide a rich source of data for facilitating non-factoid question answering over many technical domains. Given this, there is considerable interest in answer retrieval from these kinds of forums. However this is a difficult task as the structure of these forums is very rich, and both metadata and text features are important for successful retrieval. While there has recently been a lot of work on solving this problem using deep learning models applied to question/answer text, this work has not looked at how to make use of the rich metadata available in cQA forums. We propose an attention-based model which achieves state-of-the-art results for text-based answer selection alone, and by making use of complementary meta-data, achieves a substantially higher result over two reference datasets novel to this work.
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W18-6119
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Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop W-NUT: The 4th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text
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November
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2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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Wei Xu, Alan Ritter, Tim Baldwin, Afshin Rahimi
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WNUT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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137–147
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10.18653/v1/W18-6119
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Steven Xu, Andrew Bennett, Doris Hoogeveen, Jey Han Lau, and Timothy Baldwin. 2018. Preferred Answer Selection in Stack Overflow: Better Text Representations ... and Metadata, Metadata, Metadata. In Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop W-NUT: The 4th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, pages 137–147, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Preferred Answer Selection in Stack Overflow: Better Text Representations … and Metadata, Metadata, Metadata (Xu et al., WNUT 2018)
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