When web search fails, searchers become askers: Understanding the transition

SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 801-810

  Liu, Qiaoling ^a   Agichtein, Eugene ^a   Dror, Gideon ^b   Maarek, Yoelle ^b   Szpektor, Idan ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

community question answering; query analysis

Indexed keywords

LARGE-SCALE ANALYSIS; QUERY ANALYSIS; QUESTION ANSWERING; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INFORMATION; WEB SEARCHES;

SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84866605886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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