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Passage Retrieval in Question Answering

Density Based Passage Retrieval Method

Our Solution

Measuring Sentence Similarity

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What Dependency Parsing is Like

Extracting Relation Paths

Paired Paths from Question and Answer

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Measuring Path Match Degree

Calculating Translation Probability (Similarity) of Paths

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Training and Testing

Approach 1: MI Based

Approach 2: EM Based

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Evaluation Setup

Comparison Systems

Evaluation Metrics

Performance Evaluation

Performance Variation to Question Length

Error Analysis

Performance on Top of Query Expansion

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Conclusions

Q & A