Incorporating participant reputation in community-driven question answering systems

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 475-480

  Hong, Liangjie ^a   Yang, Zaihan ^a   Davison, Brian D ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH QUALITY; LINK ANALYSIS; PAGERANK; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; RELEVANCE MODELS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 70849121297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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