IIT-UHH at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Exploring Multiple Features for Community Question Answering and Implicit Dialogue Identification

Titas Nandi, Chris Biemann, Seid Muhie Yimam, Deepak Gupta, Sarah Kohail, Asif Ekbal, Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Abstract
In this paper we present the system for Answer Selection and Ranking in Community Question Answering, which we build as part of our participation in SemEval-2017 Task 3. We develop a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based system that makes use of textual, domain-specific, word-embedding and topic-modeling features. In addition, we propose a novel method for dialogue chain identification in comment threads. Our primary submission won subtask C, outperforming other systems in all the primary evaluation metrics. We performed well in other English subtasks, ranking third in subtask A and eighth in subtask B. We also developed open source toolkits for all the three English subtasks by the name cQARank [https://github.com/TitasNandi/cQARank].
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S17-2009
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)
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August
Year:
2017
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Vancouver, Canada
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Steven Bethard, Marine Carpuat, Marianna Apidianaki, Saif M. Mohammad, Daniel Cer, David Jurgens
Venue:
SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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90–97
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https://aclanthology.org/S17-2009
DOI:
10.18653/v1/S17-2009
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Titas Nandi, Chris Biemann, Seid Muhie Yimam, Deepak Gupta, Sarah Kohail, Asif Ekbal, and Pushpak Bhattacharyya. 2017. IIT-UHH at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Exploring Multiple Features for Community Question Answering and Implicit Dialogue Identification. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017), pages 90–97, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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IIT-UHH at SemEval-2017 Task 3: Exploring Multiple Features for Community Question Answering and Implicit Dialogue Identification (Nandi et al., SemEval 2017)
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 TitasNandi/cQARank
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