CQA question types (Otvety@Mail.Ru data)

Data: 2000questions.txt

The dataset and annotation scheme is described in the paper

Mukhin, Mikhail and Braslavski, Pavel. What and How Do People Ask on Community Question Answering Services in Russian? In Proc. of the Dialog-2012 Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Technologies, 2012, pp. 137-150. (preprint, conference paper)

Each question is annotated with a line of tab-delimited values of the following format:

MailRuQuestionId ConvOrInf ExpectedAnswerType QuestionType [InfQuestionType] [RecommendationType|FactualQuestionType]

Based on MailRuQuestionId you can compose an URL and access the actual question, e.g. 30001000 → http://otvet.mail.ru/question/30001000/
Question info is also available through Mail.Ru API, e.g. http://otvet.mail.ru/api/v2/question?qid=30001000

Each questions is primerely labeled either conv(ersational) or inf(ormational). Inf questions are labeled with regard to expected answer type and question type.

ExpectedAnswerType values:

y(es/)n(o)
single
mult(iple)
descr(iption)

Question types are as follows; two major classes (rec(ommendation) and fact(ual)) are further labeled with finer-grained labels:

rec(ommendation)
	method
	inf(ormation)search
	loc(ation)
fact(ual)
	attr(ibute)
	obj(ect)
	possib(ility)
	reason
	time
	purpose
fav(our)
opin(ion)
soc(ial)
offer
inv(itation)

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