Incorporating Participant Reputation in Community-driven Question Answering Systems Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison Computer Science and Engineering Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA USA
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison Why Community-driven Question & Answering ? SIN August 2009
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison Why Community-driven Question & Answering ? SIN August 2009 natural language vs. short queries
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison Why Community-driven Question & Answering ? SIN August 2009 natural language vs. short queries best answers vs. relevance
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison Why Community-driven Question & Answering ? SIN August 2009 natural language vs. short queries best answers vs. relevance user interactions!
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison Why Community-driven Question & Answering ? SIN August 2009 natural language vs. short queries best answers vs. relevance user interactions! 23 millions resolved questions!
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009
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Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Resolved
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Earth Science & Geology Physics
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Problems
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 same or similar questions different category different time Problems
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Problems Read Read them all? Trust Trust them all?
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Finding high quality answers
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Finding high quality answers content user reputation
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Finding high quality answers content user reputationuser reputation
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 HITS-like scheme User Answerer Questioner
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 HITS-like scheme User questioner - hub answerer - authority
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 PageRank-like scheme User
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 PageRank-like scheme User random jump ?
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 PageRank-like scheme User
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 PageRank-like scheme User probability of interaction
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Incorporating topics Profile User Profile
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Incorporating topics User
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Incorporating topics α -> stay 1- α -> jump topic User
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Incorporating topics α -> stay 1- α -> jump topic d -> follow link 1-d -> random jump User
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Incorporating topics User α -> stay 1- α -> jump topic d -> follow link 1-d -> random jump
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Other heuristics Z-score Linear combination
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Dataset & Evaluation Yahoo Answers! 14,122 questions + 45,814 answers 12,731 users Strict & Relaxed MRR, MAP BM25 + User Reputation
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Strict Evaluation
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Relaxed Evaluation
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 Relaxed Evaluation
Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison SIN August 2009 user reputation helps retrieval topic modeling makes sense but… question answering link direction Conclusion
SIN August 2009 Thank you! Questions? Contact Info: Liangjie Hong WUME Laboratory Computer Science and Engineering Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA USA Liangjie Hong, Zaihan Yang and Brian D. Davison