The Quality and helpfulness of answers to eating disorder questions in yahoo! answers : Teens speak out
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Social Q&A provides the possibility of looking into how people verbally express their information needs in natural language. In this study, we analyzed linguistic properties of different types of questions on the topic of eating disorders in Yahoo! Answers. Using term frequency analysis, Partof-Speech (POS) analysis, and sentiment analysis, we examined linguistic content, linguistic style, and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2373-9231,2373-9231
DOI: 10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010042