User churn in focused question answering sites: Characterizations and prediction

WWW 2014 Companion - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 469-474

  Pudipeddi, Jagat ^a   Akoglu, Leman ^a   Tong, Hanghang ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Churn prediction; Feature extraction; Q and A sites; User churn

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

CHURN PREDICTIONS; LARGE DATA; LIFE SPAN; LONG LASTING; Q AND A SITES; QUESTION ANSWERING; SELF-SUSTAINABLE; USER CHURN;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84963536064     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2567948.2576965     Document Type: Conference Paper

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