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    title = "{NLM}{\_}{NIH} at {S}em{E}val-2017 Task 3: from Question Entailment to Question Similarity for Community Question Answering",
    author = "Ben Abacha, Asma  and
      Demner-Fushman, Dina",
    editor = "Bethard, Steven  and
      Carpuat, Marine  and
      Apidianaki, Marianna  and
      Mohammad, Saif M.  and
      Cer, Daniel  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation ({S}em{E}val-2017)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Vancouver, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/S17-2057/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/S17-2057",
    pages = "349--352",
    abstract = "This paper describes our participation in SemEval-2017 Task 3 on Community Question Answering (cQA). The Question Similarity subtask (B) aims to rank a set of related questions retrieved by a search engine according to their similarity to the original question. We adapted our feature-based system for Recognizing Question Entailment (RQE) to the question similarity task. Tested on cQA-B-2016 test data, our RQE system outperformed the best system of the 2016 challenge in all measures with 77.47 MAP and 80.57 Accuracy. On cQA-B-2017 test data, performances of all systems dropped by around 30 points. Our primary system obtained 44.62 MAP, 67.27 Accuracy and 47.25 F1 score. The cQA-B-2017 best system achieved 47.22 MAP and 42.37 F1 score. Our system is ranked sixth in terms of MAP and third in terms of F1 out of 13 participating teams."
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%T NLM_NIH at SemEval-2017 Task 3: from Question Entailment to Question Similarity for Community Question Answering
%A Ben Abacha, Asma
%A Demner-Fushman, Dina
%Y Bethard, Steven
%Y Carpuat, Marine
%Y Apidianaki, Marianna
%Y Mohammad, Saif M.
%Y Cer, Daniel
%Y Jurgens, David
%S Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2017)
%D 2017
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Vancouver, Canada
%F ben-abacha-demner-fushman-2017-nlm
%X This paper describes our participation in SemEval-2017 Task 3 on Community Question Answering (cQA). The Question Similarity subtask (B) aims to rank a set of related questions retrieved by a search engine according to their similarity to the original question. We adapted our feature-based system for Recognizing Question Entailment (RQE) to the question similarity task. Tested on cQA-B-2016 test data, our RQE system outperformed the best system of the 2016 challenge in all measures with 77.47 MAP and 80.57 Accuracy. On cQA-B-2017 test data, performances of all systems dropped by around 30 points. Our primary system obtained 44.62 MAP, 67.27 Accuracy and 47.25 F1 score. The cQA-B-2017 best system achieved 47.22 MAP and 42.37 F1 score. Our system is ranked sixth in terms of MAP and third in terms of F1 out of 13 participating teams.
%R 10.18653/v1/S17-2057
%U https://aclanthology.org/S17-2057/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/S17-2057
%P 349-352
Markdown (Informal)
[NLM_NIH at SemEval-2017 Task 3: from Question Entailment to Question Similarity for Community Question Answering](https://aclanthology.org/S17-2057/) (Ben Abacha & Demner-Fushman, SemEval 2017)
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