Answers, not links: Extracting tips from Yahoo! Answers to address how-to web queries

WSDM 2012 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 613-622

  Weber, Ingmar ^a   Ukkonen, Antti ^a   Gionis, Aris ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Experimentation

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTATION; LOW QUALITIES; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; RELATED WEB QUERY;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEBSITES;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 84858055703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2124295.2124369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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