Quality-biased Retrieval in Online Forums
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This paper presents an ongoing research in utilizing content quality to enhance thread and post retrieval tasks in support oriented forums. First, we adapt the established information quality approach as a theoretical way to understand quality. Then, we outline research areas that help in quantifying quality. Lastly, we propose to use learning to rank method to weight quality parameters while ranking.
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