Title
Towards modeling question popularity in community question answering
Abstract
Community question answering (QA) has become increasingly popular and received a great variety of questions every day. Among them, some questions are very attractive and popular to many users, while some other questions are very tedious and unattractive. In this paper, we aim to identify popular questions in the community QA through modeling question popularity. Three popularity-related features of questions are defined to build the popularity model: (a) potential hits, which reflect how many users are attracted by a question at their first glance; (b) popular terms, from which users find a question attractive; and (c) tedious unpopular terms. The notable characteristic of the proposed framework is extensibility and more features can be incorporated. A large-scale question dataset from a practical community QA website was used to train and test the model. Meanwhile, two well-known classifiers, k-nearest neighbors and support vector machines, were implemented for comparison. Our approach is well validated by the experimental results with much higher prediction accuracy than the baseline methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICCI-CC.2012.6311134
2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
community question answering,social network analysis,question popularity
World Wide Web,Question answering,Computer science,Social network analysis,Support vector machine,Popularity,Extensibility
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-2794-7
1
0.34
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaojun Quan126020.64
Yao Lu2169.53
Liu Wenyin32531215.13