Hang Cui et al.
NUS at TREC-13 QA Main Task
10/20
Measuring
Path Similarity – 1
•We adopt two methods to compute path similarity using different relation
alignment methods.
•Option 1: ignore the words of those
relations along the
given paths – Total Path Matching.
–A path consists of only a list of
relations.
–Relation alignment by permutation of all
possibilities.
–Adopt IBM’s Model 1 for statistical
translation:
