Ask the Users

To ask or not to ask, that is the question

Appropriate Questions:  What are you looking for in a summer intern? (then be prepared to demonstrate how you fit those desired skills)  What has been your most interesting case/project in the past year?  What drew you to this employer/what was your path to this organization/firm?  I spoke with ______, the Michigan student who worked here two summers ago, and s/he said (fill in positive asp...

Ask the Children

Why do you ask this?∗ Using Toolbar Data to Identify Common Patterns of Q&A Users

We use Yahoo! Toolbar data to gain insights into why people use Q&A sites. For this purpose we look at tens of thousands of questions asked on both Yahoo! Answers and on Wiki Answers. We analyze both the pre-question behavior of users as well as their general online behavior. Using an existing approach (Harper et al.), we classify questions into “informational” vs. “conversational”. Finally, fo...

ASK: Active Spam Killer

We present Active Spam Killer (ASK), a program that attempts to validate unknown senders before allowing delivery of their message. Validation occurs by means of a challenge reply sent to senders who are not yet known to the system. Messages are kept in a queue pending confirmation until the sender replies to the challenge. Further messages coming from confirmed senders are delivered immediatel...

Compiling Ask Constraints

In this paper we investigate how to extend a generic constraint solver that provides not only tell constraints (by adding the constraint to the store) but also ask tests (by checking whether the constraint is entailed by the store), with general ask constraints. Ask constraints are important for implementing constraint implication, extensible solvers using dynamic scheduling and reification. Wh...