Finding expert users in Community Question Answering

WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 791-798

  Riahi, Fatemeh ^a   Zolaktaf, Zainab ^a   Shafiei, Mahdi ^a   Milios, Evangelos ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community Question Answering; Expert recommendation; Language model; TF IDF; Topic modeling

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EXPERT RECOMMENDATIONS; EXPERT USERS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL APPROACH; LANGUAGE MODEL; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION; QUESTION ANSWERING; RAPID GROWTH; TF-IDF; TOPIC MODEL;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; STATISTICS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84861029048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2187980.2188202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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