CQARank: Jointly model topics and expertise in Community Question Answering

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 99-108

  Yang, Liu ^a,b   Qiu, Minghui ^b   Gottipati, Swapna ^b   Zhu, Feida ^b   Jiang, Jing ^b   Sun, Huiping ^a   Chen, Zhong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Community Question Answering; Expert recommendation; Gaussian mixture model; Latent topic modelling; Link analysis

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY QUESTION ANSWERING; EXPERT RECOMMENDATIONS; EXPERTISE MODELS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL; KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY; LINK ANALYSIS; LINK STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; QUESTION ANSWERING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84889610414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2505515.2505720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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