Scaling question answering to the web
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
A framework to predict the quality of answers with non-textual features
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Question answering based on semantic structures
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
Expertise networks in online communities: structure and algorithms
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Enhanced Semantic Question Answering System for e-Learning Environment
AINAW '07 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops - Volume 02
Discovering authorities in question answer communities by using link analysis
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Finding high-quality content in social media
WSDM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Question Answering on the Semantic Web
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Quality-aware collaborative question answering: methods and evaluation
Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Facts or friends?: distinguishing informational and conversational questions in social Q&A sites
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Learning to recognize reliable users and content in social media with coupled mutual reinforcement
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Probabilistic question recommendation for question answering communities
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
HLT-Short '08 Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technologies: Short Papers
Content Quality Assessment Related Frameworks for Social Media
ICCSA '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications: Part II
Predicting discussions on the social semantic web
ESWC'11 Proceedings of the 8th extended semantic web conference on The semanic web: research and applications - Volume Part II
AquaLog: an ontology-portable question answering system for the semantic web
ESWC'05 Proceedings of the Second European conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications
A question of complexity: measuring the maturity of online enquiry communities
Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media
Exploiting user feedback to learn to rank answers in q&a forums: a case study with stack overflow
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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Online communities are prime sources of information. The Web is rich with forums and Question Answering (Q&A) communities where people go to seek answers to all kinds of questions. Most systems employ manual answer-rating procedures to encourage people to provide quality answers and to help users locate the best answers in a given thread. However, in the datasets we collected from three online communities, we found that half their threads lacked best answer markings. This stresses the need for methods to assess the quality of available answers to: 1) provide automated ratings to fill in for, or support, manually assigned ones, and; 2) to assist users when browsing such answers by filtering in potential best answers. In this paper, we collected data from three online communities and converted it to RDF based on the SIOC ontology. We then explored an approach for predicting best answers using a combination of content, user, and thread features. We show how the influence of such features on predicting best answers differs across communities. Further we demonstrate how certain features unique to some of our community systems can boost predictability of best answers.