Comparable entity mining from comparative questions

  • Shasha Li*
  • , Chin Yew Lin
  • , Young In Song
  • , Zhoujun Li
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Comparing one thing with another is a typical part of human decision making process. However, it is not always easy to know what to compare and what are the alternatives. To address this difficulty, we present a novel way to automatically mine comparable entities from comparative questions that users posted online. To ensure high precision and high recall, we develop a weakly-supervised bootstrapping method for comparative question identification and comparable entity extraction by leveraging a large online question archive. The experimental results show our method achieves F1-measure of 82.5% in comparative question identification and 83.3% in comparable entity extraction. Both significantly outperform an existing state-of-the-art method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
Pages650-658
Number of pages9
StatePublished - 2010
Event48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2010 - Uppsala, Sweden
Duration: 11 Jul 201016 Jul 2010

Publication series

NameACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2010
Country/TerritorySweden
CityUppsala
Period11/07/1016/07/10

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