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What Makes a High-Quality User-Generated Answer?

Published: 01 January 2011 Publication History

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Community-driven question-answering (CQA) services on the Internet let users share content in the form of questions and answers. Usually, questions attract multiple answers of varying quality from other users. A new approach aims to identify high-quality answers from candidate answers to questions that are semantically similar to the new question. Toward that end, the authors developed and tested a quality framework comprising social, textual, and content-appraisal features of user-generated answers in CQA services. Logistic-regression analysis revealed that content-appraisal features were the strongest predictor of quality. These features include dimensions such as comprehensiveness, truthfulness, and practicality.

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cover image IEEE Internet Computing
IEEE Internet Computing  Volume 15, Issue 1
January 2011
91 pages

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IEEE Educational Activities Department

United States

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Published: 01 January 2011

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  1. Internet
  2. quality framework
  3. question answering
  4. question answering, quality framework, Internet

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