A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to information retrieval
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
An intelligent discussion-bot for answering student queries in threaded discussions
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Retrieval and feedback models for blog feed search
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Finding question-answer pairs from online forums
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Blog site search using resource selection
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Online community search using thread structure
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Geometric representations for multiple documents
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Tagging and linking web forum posts
CoNLL '10 Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
Learning a user-thread alignment manifold for thread recommendation in online forum
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Shopping for top forums: discovering online discussion for product research
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Social Media Analytics
Online community search using conversational structures
Information Retrieval
Predicting thread discourse structure over technical web forums
EMNLP '11 Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Conversation retrieval for microblogging sites
Information Retrieval
Retrieving similar discussion forum threads: a structure based approach
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Mixed membership Markov models for unsupervised conversation modeling
EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
Meta search models for online forum thread retrieval: research in progress
ACIIDS'13 Proceedings of the 5th Asian conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems - Volume Part I
Exploiting Forum Thread Structures to Improve Thread Clustering
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
Retrieving opinions from discussion forums
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Quality biased thread retrieval using the voting model
Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Document Computing Symposium
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Online forums host a rich information exchange, often with contributions from many subject matter experts. In this work we evaluate algorithms for thread retrieval in a large and active online forum community. We compare methods that utilize thread structure to a naïve method that treats a thread as a single document. We find that thread structure helps, and additionally selective methods of thread scoring, which only use evidence from a small number of messages in the thread, significantly and consistently outperform inclusive methods which use all the messages in the thread.