MixKMeans: Clustering Question-Answer Archives

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Abstract

Community-driven Question Answering (CQA) systems that crowdsource experiential information in the form of questions and answers and have accumulated valuable reusable knowledge. Clustering of QA datasets from CQA systems provides a means of organizing the content to ease tasks such as manual curation and tagging. In this paper, we present a clustering method that exploits the two-part question-answer structure in QA datasets to improve clustering quality. Our method, {\it MixKMeans}, composes question and answer space similarities in a way that the space on which the match is higher is allowed to dominate. This construction is motivated by our observation that semantic similarity between question-answer data (QAs) could get localized in either space. We empirically evaluate our method on a variety of real-world labeled datasets. Our results indicate that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art clustering methods for the task of clustering question-answer archives.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2016
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Publication statusPublished - 06 Nov 2016
EventConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Texas, Austin, United States
Duration: 02 Nov 201606 Nov 2016
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Conference

ConferenceConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Abbreviated titleEMNLP 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period02/11/201606/11/2016
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