One vs. Many QA Matching with both Word-level and Sentence-level Attention Network (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on question answer matching focus on formal text . however, there exists many scenarios where the QA text is informal . |
| Approach: | They propose a novel QA matching approach using informal text from a product review site. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves word-level and sentence-level attentions for solving the noisy problem in the informal text. |
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