Formulating effective questions for community-based question answering

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1261-1262

  Suzuki, Saori ^a   Nakayama, Shin'ichi ^a   Joho, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Context; CQA; Question formulation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY-BASED QUESTION ANSWERING; CONTEXT; CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; INFORMATION SEEKING; QUESTION FORMULATION; SOCIAL ATTRIBUTES;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 80052111817     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2010149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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