Not all is gold that glitters response time & satisfaction rates in Yahoo! answers

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 904-909

  Rechavi, Amit ^a   Rafaeli, Sheizaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Response time; Satisfaction rates; Wisdom of the crowds; Yahoo! answers

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE NUMBERS; NETWORK ACTIVITIES; RESEARCH FIELDS; SATISFACTION RATES; WISDOM OF THE CROWDS; YAHOO! ANSWERS;

RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

EID: 84856166491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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