Community Question Answering System

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This Resource includes:

  • A live demonstration of question-answering system.
  • Relevant publications for question-answering system.

Demo

link to live Qatar Living system

This search tool helps you to find good answers to your question by searching through previously asked questions in the Qatarliving forum. The underlying technology is developed at QCRI and MIT in collaboration with Qatar Living.

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Relevant publications


Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, and Giuseppe Carenini. CQAVis: Visual Text Analytics for Community Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 2017 international conference on Intelligent user interfaces (IUI’17) , pages 161-172, 2017.

@inproceedings{hoque-et-al-iui-17,
 author = {Enamul Hoque and Shafiq Joty and Lluís Màrquez and Giuseppe Carenini},
 title = {{CQAVis: Visual Text Analytics for Community Question Answering}},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 international conference on Intelligent user interfaces},
 series = {IUI-17},
 url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3025210},
 year = {2017},
 address = {Limassol, Cyprus},
 pages = {161-172},
 publisher = {ACM}
} 

Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, and Preslav Nakov. Joint Learning with Global Inference for Comment Classification in Community Question Answering. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL’16) , pages 703–-713, 2016.

@inproceedings{joty-marquez-nakov-naacl-16,
 author = {Shafiq Joty and  M\`{a}rquez, Llu\'{i}s and Preslav Nakov},
 title = {Joint Learning with Global Inference for Comment Classification in Community Question Answering},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies},
 series = {NAACL-16},
 year = {2016},
 address = {San Diego, California},
 pages = {703–713},
 numpages = {9},
 publisher = {ACL}
} 

Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Simone Filice, Giovanni Da San Martino, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Preslav Nakov, and Alessandro Moschitti. Thread-Level Information for Comment Classification in Community Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (ACL’15) , pages 687-693, 2015.

@InProceedings{cedeno-et-al-acl-15,
  author    = {Barron-Cedeno, Alberto  and  Filice, Simone  and  Da San Martino, Giovanni  and  Joty, Shafiq  and  M\`{a}rquez, Llu\'{i}s  and  Nakov, Preslav  and  Moschitti, Alessandro},
  title     = {Thread-Level Information for Comment Classification in Community Question Answering},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing},
  month     = {July},
  series    = {ACL-15},
  year      = {2015},
  address   = {Beijing, China},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {687-693},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P15-2113}
}

Shafiq Joty, Alberto Barron-Cedeno, Giovanni Da San Martino, Simone Filice, Lluís Màrquez, Alessandro Moschitti, and Preslav Nakov. Global Thread-level Inference for Comment Classification in Community Question Answering. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , pages 573-578, 2015.

@InProceedings{joty-et-al-emnlp-15-2,
  author    = {Joty, Shafiq  and  Barron-Cedeno, Alberto  and  Da San Martino, Giovanni  and  Filice, Simone  and  M\`{a}rquez, Llu\'{i}s  and  Moschitti, Alessandro  and  Nakov, Preslav},
  title     = {Global Thread-level Inference for Comment Classification in Community Question Answering},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  year      = {2015},
  address   = {Lisbon, Portugal},
  publisher = {ACL},
  pages     = {573--578},
  url       = {https://aclweb.org/anthology/D/D15/D15-1068},
}