MappSent at IJCNLP-2017 Task 5: A Textual Similarity Approach Applied to Multi-choice Question Answering in Examinations

Amir Hazem


Abstract
In this paper we present MappSent, a textual similarity approach that we applied to the multi-choice question answering in exams shared task. MappSent has initially been proposed for question-to-question similarity hazem2017. In this work, we present the results of two adaptations of MappSent for the question answering task on the English dataset.
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I17-4034
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Proceedings of the IJCNLP 2017, Shared Tasks
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December
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2017
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Taipei, Taiwan
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Chao-Hong Liu, Preslav Nakov, Nianwen Xue
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IJCNLP
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Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing
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203–207
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Amir Hazem. 2017. MappSent at IJCNLP-2017 Task 5: A Textual Similarity Approach Applied to Multi-choice Question Answering in Examinations. In Proceedings of the IJCNLP 2017, Shared Tasks, pages 203–207, Taipei, Taiwan. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing.
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