Socializing or knowledge sharing? Characterizing social intent in community question answering

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1127-1136

  Mendes Rodrigues, Eduarda ^a   Milic Frayling, Natasa ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Q A community; Question typology; Social scores; User intent

Indexed keywords

CODING METHODS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE SHARING COMMUNITIES; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PERSONAL INTERACTION; QUESTION ANSWERING; SOCIAL ECOSYSTEMS; SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; WEALTH OF INFORMATION; WEB USERS; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPLEXATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 74549172546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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