... SMT trainingpipeline. This training procedure includes variousstandard procedures such as preprocessing, sentence and chunk alignment, word alignment, and phraseextraction. The goal of question-answer ... 2006) in a10-fold cross validation setup. Training was doneusing 20 feature functions on occurrences questionmarks and key words in different fields of webpages, and resulted in an F1 score of ... toincrease the chances of matching words in relevantdocuments by adding terms with similar statisticalproperties to those in the original query (Voorhees,1994; Qiu and Frei, 1993; Xu and Croft,...