Large Question Queries

[gnawang]

Baseline ephyra typically only handles a single question. However, piazza posts typically have more than a single sentence in the query.

There are two ways we can account for this:

1. Leave it as is, and let PiazzaQA return the most relevant answer to the given query
2. Parse the query into its component sentences and run PiazzaQA on each sentence

I opt for the second as it would provide more usefulness for the tradeoff of extra time. However, time would be a huge issue because statements that clearly aren't questions will naturally return without many results from baseline Ephyra.

[gnawang]

OpenNLP already has a sentence detector https://opennlp.apache.org/documentation/1.5.3/manual/opennlp.html#tools.sentdetect