... al., 2008). Therefore, it is a meaningfultask to retrieve the questions that are semanticallyequivalent or relevant to the queried questions. For example in Table 1, given question Q1, Q2can ... between the queried questions andthe historical questions in the archives (Jeon et al.,2005; Xue et al., 2008). For example in Table 1, Q1and Q2are two semantically similar questions, butthey ... aims to find historical questions thatare semantically equivalent or relevant to thequeried questions. In this paper, we proposea novel phrase-based translation model for question retrieval. Compared...