Supporting synchronous social Q&A throughout the question lifecycle

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 755-764

  Richardson, Matthew ^a   White, Ryen W ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Predictive models; Question answering; Synchronous social Q A

Indexed keywords

INFORMED DECISION; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PREDICTIVE MODELS; QUESTION ANSWERING; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; SYSTEM INTERACTIONS; USER PROFILE;

LIFE CYCLE; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84861068546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1963405.1963511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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