Exploring question selection bias to identify experts and potential experts in community question answering

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Pal, Aditya ^a   Harper, F Maxwell ^a   Konstan, Joseph A ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Community question answering; Expert identification; Question selection process

Indexed keywords

BASELINE MODELS; DATA SETS; HIGH QUALITY; IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; QUESTION ANSWERING; QUESTION SELECTION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84863742647     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2180868.2180872     Document Type: Article

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