Community and thread methods for identifying best answers in online question answering communities

Community and Thread Methods for Identifying Best Answers in Online Question Answering Communities

Automatic Identification of Best Answers in Online Enquiry Communities

Online communities are prime sources of information. The Web is rich with forums and Question Answering (Q&A) communities where people go to seek answers to all kinds of questions. Most systems employ manual answer-rating procedures to encourage people to provide quality answers and to help users locate the best answers in a given thread. However, in the datasets we collected from three online ...

JAIST: Combining multiple features for Answer Selection in Community Question Answering

In this paper, we describe our system for SemEval-2015 Task 3: Answer Selection in Community Question Answering. In this task, the systems are required to identify the good or potentially good answers from the answer thread in Community Question Answering collections. Our system combines 16 features belong to 5 groups to predict answer quality. Our final model achieves the best result in subtas...

Analyzing Users’ Health Information Needs Based on the Yahoo Answers®

Background and Aim: People refer to virtual information resources for answering their medical questions. One of these resources includes question and answering (Q&A) sites in medicine. This study aims to analyze health  questions posted on the Yahoo Answers to identify health information needs, the motivations for asking questions, evaluation of information user satisfaction resulted from recei...

Understanding Users’ Continuance Intention to Answer Questions in Online Question Answering Communities

This study develops a research model to investigate the antecedents of users’ continuance intention to answer questions in online question answering (Q&A) communities based on the literature of knowledge contribution and behavioral continuance. The research model is tested by using the data collected from 241 users of a famous online Q&A community in China (i.e., “Yahoo! Answers China”). The re...