... the ACL 2010 Conference Short Papers, pages 236–240,Uppsala, Sweden, 11-16 July 2010.c2010 Association for Computational Linguistics Optimizing Question Answering Accuracy by Maximizing Log-LikelihoodMatthias ... ofquestion-and-answer pairs. Experimentalresults show that we achieve better QA ac-curacy using the resulting clusters than by using manually derived clusters.1 IntroductionQuestion Answering (QA) distinguishes ... other languages. Ma-chine learning methods have been proposed, suchas question classification using support vector ma-chines (Zhang and Lee, 2003) and language mod-eling (Merkel and Klakow,...