Wisdom in the social crowd: An analysis of Quora

WWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1341-1351

  Wang, Gang ^a   Gill, Konark ^a   Mohanlal, Manish ^a   Zheng, Haitao ^a   Zhao, Ben Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphs; Online social networks; Q A system

Indexed keywords

GRAPHS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL GRAPHS; USER COMMUNITIES; WIKIPEDIA;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84893143430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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