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Table 2 Results of experiments of answer candidate evaluation

From: Question answering system using Q & A site corpus Query expansion and answer candidate evaluation

 

Top-5 accuracy

MRR

Only Web relevanve (γ=1)

0.55

0.423

Only translation probability (γ=0)

0.49

0.318

Proposed method (γ=0.93)

0.59

0.395

Proposed method (γ=0.98)

0.57

0.461

  1. This table summarizes the top-5 accuracies and MRR of the systems for the experiments of the candidate answer evaluation. As for MRR, the proposed method was significantly better than the original methods according to a Wilcoxon signed-rank test.
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