"How much change do you get from 40$?" - Analyzing and addressing failed questions on social Q&A

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Shah, Chirag ^a   Radford, Marie L ^a   Connaway, Lynn Silipigni ^b   Choi, Erik ^a   Kitzie, Vanessa ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OCLC Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Online Q A; Questions analysis; Social Q A; Virtual reference services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878606054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504901119     Document Type: Article

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