Evaluating and predicting answer quality in community QA

SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 411-418

  Shah, Chirag ^a   Pomerantz, Jefferey ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Answer quality evaluation and prediction; Community question answering

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY QUESTION ANSWERING; CONTENT QUALITIES; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; INFORMATION NEED; MECHANICAL TURKS; MULTIPLE USER; QUALITY CRITERIA; QUALITY EVALUATION; QUESTION ANSWERING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORECASTING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 77956051072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835518     Document Type: Conference Paper

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