Algorithm for recommending answer providers in community-based question answering

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-14

  Zheng, Xiaolin ^a   Hu, Zhongkai ^a   Xu, Aiwu ^a   Chen, Deren ^a   Liu, Kuang ^b   Li, Bo ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

community based question answering; maximum entropy model; query likelihood language model; recommending answer providers

Indexed keywords

BASELINE METHODS; LANGUAGE MODEL; MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODELS; QUESTION ANSWERING; REAL WORLD DATA; RECOMMENDING ANSWER PROVIDERS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 84863258250     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551511423149     Document Type: Article

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