Predicting information seeker satisfaction in community question answering

ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 483-490

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

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community question answering; Information seeker satisfaction

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY QUESTION ANSWERING; INFORMATION SEEKER SATISFACTION; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTENT INFERENCES; INTERFACE DESIGNS; PREDICTION MODELS; QUERY SUGGESTIONS; QUESTION ANSWERING; USER RATINGS;

FORECASTING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION USE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 57349140324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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