#2142We describe a set of supervised machine learning experiments centering on the construction of statistical models of WH-questions .
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of
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WH-questions
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models
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, which are built from
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shallow
#2145These models , which are built from shallow linguistic features of questions, are employed to predict target variables which represent a user's informational goals.
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predictive performance
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of our
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models
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, including the influence of various
#2182We report on different aspects of the predictive performance of our models , including the influence of various training and testing factors on predictive performance, and examine the relationships among the target variables.