Answer quality characteristics and prediction on an academic QandA site: A case study on researchgate

WWW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1453-1458

  Li, Lei ^a   He, Daqing ^b   Jeng, Wei ^b   Goodwin, Spencer ^b   Zhang, Chengzhi ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic QandA site; Academic social networking; Peer rating; ResearchGate; Social QandA; User judgment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WORLD WIDE WEB;

ACADEMIC QANDA SITE; ACADEMIC SOCIAL NETWORKINGS; RESEARCHGATE; SOCIAL QANDA; USER JUDGMENT;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84968658874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2740908.2742129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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