Quality-aware collaborative Question Answering: Methods and evaluation

Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 142-151

  Suryanto, Maggy Anastasia ^a   Lim, Ee Peng ^b   Sun, Aixin ^a   Chiang, Roger H L ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Answer quality; Expertise; Question Answering

Indexed keywords

ANSWER QUALITY; DESIGN METHOD; EXPERTISE; QUESTION ANSWERING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 70349108783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1498759.1498820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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