{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/an-information-retrieval-approach-to-short","title":"An Information Retrieval Approach to Short Text Conversation","arxiv_id":"1408.6988","date":"2014-08-29","proceeding":null,"authors":["Zongcheng Ji","Zhengdong Lu","Hang Li"],"abstract":"Human computer conversation is regarded as one of the most difficult problems\nin artificial intelligence. In this paper, we address one of its key\nsub-problems, referred to as short text conversation, in which given a message\nfrom human, the computer returns a reasonable response to the message. We\nleverage the vast amount of short conversation data available on social media\nto study the issue. We propose formalizing short text conversation as a search\nproblem at the first step, and employing state-of-the-art information retrieval\n(IR) techniques to carry out the task. We investigate the significance as well\nas the limitation of the IR approach. Our experiments demonstrate that the\nretrieval-based model can make the system behave rather \"intelligently\", when\ncombined with a huge repository of conversation data from social media.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.6988v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.6988v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"an-information-retrieval-approach-to-short","repo_url":"https://github.com/0xyd/sec2vec","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"information-retrieval","task_name":"Information Retrieval"},{"task_slug":"retrieval","task_name":"Retrieval"},{"task_slug":"short-text-conversation","task_name":"Short-Text Conversation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1408.6988","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}