Identifying authoritative actors in question-answering forums: The case of Yahoo! answers

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 866-874

  Bouguessa, Mohamed ^a   Dumoulin, Benoît ^b   Wang, Shengrui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b YAHOO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Identification of authoritative actors; Link analysis; Mixture model; Yahoo! answers

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATIONS; BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERIONS; DATA-SETS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTIONS; IDENTIFICATION OF AUTHORITATIVE ACTORS; LINK ANALYSIS; MIXTURE MODEL; NUMBER OF COMPONENTS; QUESTION-ANSWERING; YAHOO! ANSWERS;

AUTOMATION; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MINING;

MIXTURES;

EID: 65449137152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1401890.1401994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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