Analyzing and predicting question quality in community question answering services

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 775-782

  Li, Baichuan ^a   Jin, Tan ^a   Lyu, Michael R ^a   King, Irwin ^a,b   Mak, Barley ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis; Community question answering; Prediction; Question quality

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; HIGH QUALITY; LABEL PROPAGATION; LOW QUALITIES; QUESTION ANSWERING; SHARE KNOWLEDGE;

ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84861074082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2187980.2188200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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