DATE: | Wed, May 21, 2014 |
TIME: | 3:30 pm |
PLACE: | Council Room (SITE 5-084) |
TITLE: | Personalized Question Answering through User Topic Models |
PRESENTER: | Hamidreza Chinaei
Laval University & IBM |
ABSTRACT:
In this talk, we introduce the framework that we use for building our
personalized Question Answering system. In particular, we describe its
personalization functionality in which we have proposed a new
probabilistic scoring approach based on the topics of the question and
candidate answers. First, a set of topics of interest to the user is
learned based on a topic modeling approach such as Latent Dirichlet
Allocation. Then, the similarity of questions asked by the user to the
candidate answers, returned by the search engine, is estimated by
calculating the probability of the candidate answer given the question.
This similarity is used to re-rank the answers returned by the search
engine. Our preliminary experiments show that the re-ranking highly
increases the performance of the Question Answering system calculated
based on accuracy and MRR (mean reciprocal rank). In this talk, we also
introduce the other research topics that we are currently performing in
this domain.
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