Tapping on the potential of Q&A community by recommending answer providers

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 921-930

  Guo, Jinwen ^a   Xu, Shengliang ^a   Bao, Shenghua ^a   Yu, Yong ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Community based question answering; Gibbs sampling; Latent topic modeling; Question Answerer Recommendation

Indexed keywords

BASELINE METHODS; BAYESIAN NETWORK MODELS; COMMUNITY-BASED QUESTION ANSWERING; GENERATIVE MODEL; GIBBS SAMPLING; LATENT TOPIC MODELING; LEVEL METHOD; LEVEL MODEL; PARTICIPATION RATE; QUESTION ANSWERER RECOMMENDATION; QUESTION ANSWERING; REAL WORLD DATA; USER PROFILE;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 70349236044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1458082.1458204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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