... structures for rela-tional learning from questions and answers. Wedesigned sequence kernels for words and Part ofSpeech Tags which capture basic lexical seman-tics and basic syntactic information. ... (Collins and Duffy, 2002; Kudo and Matsumoto, 2003; Cumby and Roth, 2003; Shenet al., 2003; Moschitti and Bejan, 2004; Culotta and Sorensen, 2004; Kudo et al., 2005; Toutanovaet al., 2004; Kazama and ... models and bag-of-words. There-fore, learning methods to exploit syntax and semantics are required. In this pa-per, we present a new kernel for the repre-sentation of shallow semantic informationalong...