Predicting long-term impact of CQA posts: A comprehensive viewpoint

Yuan Yao, Hanghang Tong, Feng Xu, Jian Lu

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10 Scopus citations

Abstract

Community Question Answering (CQA) sites have become valuable platforms to create, share, and seek a massive volume of human knowledge. How can we spot an insightful question that would inspire massive further discussions in CQA sites? How can we detect a valuable answer that benefits many users? The long-term impact (e.g., the size of the population a post benefits) of a question/answer post is the key quantity to answer these questions. In this paper, we aim to predict the long-term impact of questions/answers shortly after they are posted in the CQA sites. In particular, we propose a family of algorithms for the prediction problem by modeling three key aspects, i.e., non-linearity, question/answer coupling, and dynamics. We analyze our algorithms in terms of optimality, correctness, and complexity. We conduct extensive experimental evaluations on two real CQA data sets to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our algorithms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationKDD 2014 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1496-1505
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9781450329569
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event20th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2014 - New York, NY, United States
Duration: Aug 24 2014Aug 27 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Conference

Conference20th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York, NY
Period8/24/148/27/14

Keywords

  • impact correlation
  • long-term impact
  • question answering

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems

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