Publication
SemEval 2015
Conference paper

FBK-HLT: An Application of Semantic Textual Similarity for Answer Selection in Community Question Answering

Abstract

This paper reports the description and performance of our system, FBK-HLT, participating in the SemEval 2015, Task #3 "Answer Selection in Community Question Answering" for English, for both subtasks. We submit two runs with different classifiers in combining typical features (lexical similarity, string similarity, word n-grams, etc.) with machine translation evaluation metrics and with some ad hoc features (e.g user overlapping, spam filtering). We outperform the baseline system and achieve interesting results on both subtasks.

Date

04 Jun 2015

Publication

SemEval 2015

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