Modelling Question Selection Behaviour in Online Communities

Burel, Gregoire; He, Yulan; Mulholland, Paul and Alani, Harith (2015). Modelling Question Selection Behaviour in Online Communities. In: WWW '15 Companion, ACM, pp. 357–358.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2740908.2745935

URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2745935

Abstract

Value of online Question Answering (Q&A) communities is driven by the question-answering behaviour of its members. Finding the questions that members are willing to answer is therefore vital to the efficient operation of such communities. In this paper, we aim to identify the parameters that cor- relate with such behaviours. We train different models and construct effective predictions using various user, question and thread feature sets. We show that answering behaviour can be predicted with a high level of success.

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• Item ORO ID
• 44014
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• ISBN
• 1-4503-3473-3, 978-1-4503-3473-0
• Keywords
• social Q&A platforms; online communities; user behaviour; social media
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
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• Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
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• Kay Dave