Incorporating Label Dependency for Answer Quality Tagging in Community Question Answering via CNN-LSTM-CRF

Yang Xiang, Xiaoqiang Zhou, Qingcai Chen, Zhihui Zheng, Buzhou Tang, Xiaolong Wang, Yang Qin


Abstract
In community question answering (cQA), the quality of answers are determined by the matching degree between question-answer pairs and the correlation among the answers. In this paper, we show that the dependency between the answer quality labels also plays a pivotal role. To validate the effectiveness of label dependency, we propose two neural network-based models, with different combination modes of Convolutional Neural Net-works, Long Short Term Memory and Conditional Random Fields. Extensive experi-ments are taken on the dataset released by the SemEval-2015 cQA shared task. The first model is a stacked ensemble of the networks. It achieves 58.96% on macro averaged F1, which improves the state-of-the-art neural network-based method by 2.82% and outper-forms the Top-1 system in the shared task by 1.77%. The second is a simple attention-based model whose input is the connection of the question and its corresponding answers. It produces promising results with 58.29% on overall F1 and gains the best performance on the Good and Bad categories.
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C16-1117
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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1231–1241
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Yang Xiang, Xiaoqiang Zhou, Qingcai Chen, Zhihui Zheng, Buzhou Tang, Xiaolong Wang, and Yang Qin. 2016. Incorporating Label Dependency for Answer Quality Tagging in Community Question Answering via CNN-LSTM-CRF. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 1231–1241, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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Incorporating Label Dependency for Answer Quality Tagging in Community Question Answering via CNN-LSTM-CRF (Xiang et al., COLING 2016)
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