Automatic Mining of Comparable Entities

Computer Engineering

Making Comparisons between things is a typical part of human decision making process. But however, it is difficult to know what are to be compared and what can be the alternatives. For eg. if someone is interested in certain products such as digital cameras, then he /she would want to know what the alternatives are and compare different cameras before making any purchase. This type of comparison activity is very common in our daily life but requires high knowledge skill in order to make much better choice. Therefore, to address this difficulty, we are presenting a novel way to automatically mine comparable entities from comparative questions that users posted online. The literature review revealed that this method gets an F1-measure of 82.5 percent in identification of comparative question and 83.3 percent in comparable entity extraction.

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