The growing diagnosis and public awareness of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) leads more parents to seek answers to their suspicions for ASD in their child on Internet forums. This study describes an analysis of the quality of content of 371 answers on Yahoo Answers (YA), a social questionand-answer forum, to parents querying whether their child has ASD. We contrasted the perceived quality of a...

Recommendation is the task of providing content that is likely to interest users and enrich their online experience. At Yahoo!, the variety of user-facing applications and the nature and volume of data raise multiple recommendation opportunities and challenges. In this paper, we provide a brief description of several projects within Yahoo! Labs, in the context of Web Search (Section 2), interpr...

Challenges in answering queries over Web-accessible sources are selecting the sources that must be accessed and computing answers efficiently. Both tasks become more difficult when there is overlap among sources and when sources may return answers of varying quality. The objective is to obtain the best answers while minimizing the costs or delay in computing these answers and is similar to solv...