Finding the right facts in the crowd: Factoid question answering over social media

Proceeding of the 17th International Conference on World Wide Web 2008, WWW'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 467-476

  Bian, Jiang ^a   Agichtein, Eugene ^b   Liu, Yandong ^b   Zha, Hongyuan ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Question answering; Ranking

Indexed keywords

BODY OF KNOWLEDGES; BUILDING BLOCKS; COMMUNITY; FACTOID QUESTIONS; INFORMATION ACCESSES; INFORMATION NEEDS; LEARNING FRAMEWORKS; QUESTION ANSWERING; RANKING; RESULT ANALYSES; SOCIAL MEDIAS; WEB SEARCHES; WEB SETTINGS;

BENCHMARKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 57349137606     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1367497.1367561     Document Type: Conference Paper

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