A comparative assessment of answer quality on four question answering sites

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 476-486

  Fichman, Pnina ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

community question answering; crowd sourcing; information quality; Q A sites; social Q A; social reference

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY LEVEL; COLLABORATIVE PROCESS; COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT; CROWD-SOURCING; INFORMATION QUALITY; QUESTION ANSWERING; SOCIAL REFERENCE; TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM; VERIFIABILITY; WEB 2.0; WIKIPEDIA;

USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054066889     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551511415584     Document Type: Article

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