Exploiting conversational features to detect high-quality blog comments

  • Authors:
  • Nicholas FitzGerald;Giuseppe Carenini;Gabriel Murray;Shafiq Joty

  • Affiliations:
  • University of British Columbia;University of British Columbia;University of British Columbia;University of British Columbia

  • Venue:
  • Canadian AI'11 Proceedings of the 24th Canadian conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this work, we present a method for classifying the quality of blog comments using Linear-Chain Conditional Random Fields (CRFs). This approach is found to yield high accuracy on binary classification of high-quality comments, with conversational features contributing strongly to the accuracy. We also present a new corpus of blog data in conversational form, complete with user-generated quality moderation labels from the science and technology news blog Slashdot.