Question routing in community based QA: incorporating answer quality and answer content

  • Authors:
  • Lei Fang;Minlie Huang;Xiaoyan Zhu

  • Affiliations:
  • Tsinghua University;Tsinghua University;Tsinghua University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Mining Data Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Community based question and answering (cQA) services provide a convenient way for online users to share and exchange information and knowledge, which is highly valuable for information seeking. User interest and dedication act as the motivation to promote the interactive process of question and answering. In this paper, we aim to address a key issue about cQA systems: routing newly asked questions to appropriate users that may potentially provide answer with high quality. We incorporate answer quality and answer content to build a probabilistic question routing model. Our proposed model is capable of 1) differentiating and quantifying the authority of users for different topic or category; 2) routing questions to users with expertise. Experimental results based on a large collection of data from Wenwen demonstrate that our model is effective and has promising performance.