Mining question-answer pairs from web forum: a survey of challenges and resolutions

Internet forums, which are also known as discussion boards, are popular web applications. Members of the board discuss issues and share ideas to form a community within the board, and as a result generate huge amount of content on different topics on daily basis. Interest in information extraction a...

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Main Authors: Obasa, Adekunle I., Salim, Naomie, Al-khassawneh, Yazan A.
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spelling my.utm.608322017-03-08T03:25:15Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/60832/ Mining question-answer pairs from web forum: a survey of challenges and resolutions Obasa, Adekunle I. Salim, Naomie Al-khassawneh, Yazan A. QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Internet forums, which are also known as discussion boards, are popular web applications. Members of the board discuss issues and share ideas to form a community within the board, and as a result generate huge amount of content on different topics on daily basis. Interest in information extraction and knowledge discovery from such sources has been on the increase in the research community. A number of factors are limiting the potentiality of mining knowledge from forums. Lexical chasm or lexical gap that renders some Natural Language Processing techniques (NLP) less effective, Informal tone that creates noisy data, drifting of discussion topic that prevents focused mining and asynchronous issue that makes it difficult to establish post-reply relationship are some of the problems that need to be addressed. This survey introduces these challenges within the framework of question answering. The survey provides description of the problems; cites and explores useful publications to the reader for further examination; provides an overview of resolution strategies and findings relevant to the challenges. 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/60832/1/NaomieSalim2014_MiningQuestionAnswerPairsfromWeb.pdf Obasa, Adekunle I. and Salim, Naomie and Al-khassawneh, Yazan A. (2014) Mining question-answer pairs from web forum: a survey of challenges and resolutions. In: 5th International Graduate Conference on Engineering, Sciences and Humanities, 19-21 August, 2015, Skudai, Johor.
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Mining question-answer pairs from web forum: a survey of challenges and resolutions
description Internet forums, which are also known as discussion boards, are popular web applications. Members of the board discuss issues and share ideas to form a community within the board, and as a result generate huge amount of content on different topics on daily basis. Interest in information extraction and knowledge discovery from such sources has been on the increase in the research community. A number of factors are limiting the potentiality of mining knowledge from forums. Lexical chasm or lexical gap that renders some Natural Language Processing techniques (NLP) less effective, Informal tone that creates noisy data, drifting of discussion topic that prevents focused mining and asynchronous issue that makes it difficult to establish post-reply relationship are some of the problems that need to be addressed. This survey introduces these challenges within the framework of question answering. The survey provides description of the problems; cites and explores useful publications to the reader for further examination; provides an overview of resolution strategies and findings relevant to the challenges.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Obasa, Adekunle I.
Salim, Naomie
Al-khassawneh, Yazan A.
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Salim, Naomie
Al-khassawneh, Yazan A.
author_sort Obasa, Adekunle I.
title Mining question-answer pairs from web forum: a survey of challenges and resolutions
title_short Mining question-answer pairs from web forum: a survey of challenges and resolutions
title_full Mining question-answer pairs from web forum: a survey of challenges and resolutions
title_fullStr Mining question-answer pairs from web forum: a survey of challenges and resolutions
title_full_unstemmed Mining question-answer pairs from web forum: a survey of challenges and resolutions
title_sort mining question-answer pairs from web forum: a survey of challenges and resolutions
publishDate 2014
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