Tweaking Word Embeddings for FAQ Ranking

Erick Fonseca, Simone Magnolini, Anna Feltracco, Mohammed R. H. Qwaider, Bernardo Magnini · Accademia University Press eBooks · 2016

We present the system developed at FBK for the EVALITA 2016 Shared Task “QA4FAQ – Question Answering for Frequently Asked Questions”. A peculiar characteristic of this task is the total absence of training data, so we created a meaningful representation of the data using only word embeddings. We present the system as well as the results of the two submitted runs, and a qualitative analysis of them.

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