A Flexible, Efficient and Accurate Framework for Community Question Answering Pipelines (P18-4)
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| Challenge: | Community Question Answering is a research area that benefits from deep linguistic analysis . previous cQA challenges have shown that neural approaches are not enough to deliver state-of-the-art results . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to distribute computation of cQA tasks over computer clusters . community question answering is a research area that benefits from deep linguistic analysis . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework scales to large datasets and delivers fast processing. |
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