As an attempt to better understand how people seek, share, and evaluate information in a social Q&A environment, this study identifies the selection criteria people employ when they select best answers in Yahoo! Answers in the context of relevance research. Using content analysis, we analyzed the comments people left upon the selection of best answers to their own questions. From 1,200 samples of comments, only 465 mentioned the specific reasons for their selection, thus becoming eligible for analysis. Through an iterative process of evaluating the types of comments, the best-answer selection criteria were inductively derived an
Online question-answering (Q&A) sites are platforms for askers to seek information by posting questi...
While social question-answering (SQA) services are becoming increasingly popular, there is often an ...
This study investigates how people conduct elaboration and develops confidence in healthcare and tra...
This study examines the factors that affect the selection of the best answer in a Community-driven Q...
In this paper, we examine the value of social question-answering (Q&A) services as a platform fo...
People are seeking more meaningful and customized information than what is obtained by keywords-base...
People are seeking more meaningful and customized information than what is obtained by keywords-base...
Social Q&A (SQA) has rapidly grown in popularity, impacting people’s information seeking behaviors. ...
Social Q&A (SQA) has rapidly grown in popularity, impacting people’s information seeking behavio...
The rigorousness, professionalism and seriousness of answer contents in social Q&A communities have ...
Along with the proliferation of the social web, question and answer (QA) sites attract millions of u...
Abstract—Social networking or social media sites are in-volved in our daily life. With the increasin...
Despite various studies on examining and predicting answer quality on generic social Q&A sites such ...
The World Wide Web has become a medium for people to share information. People use Web-based collabo...
Community question answering (CQA) sites use a collaborative paradigm to satisfy complex information...
Online question-answering (Q&A) sites are platforms for askers to seek information by posting questi...
While social question-answering (SQA) services are becoming increasingly popular, there is often an ...
This study investigates how people conduct elaboration and develops confidence in healthcare and tra...
This study examines the factors that affect the selection of the best answer in a Community-driven Q...
In this paper, we examine the value of social question-answering (Q&A) services as a platform fo...
People are seeking more meaningful and customized information than what is obtained by keywords-base...
People are seeking more meaningful and customized information than what is obtained by keywords-base...
Social Q&A (SQA) has rapidly grown in popularity, impacting people’s information seeking behaviors. ...
Social Q&A (SQA) has rapidly grown in popularity, impacting people’s information seeking behavio...
The rigorousness, professionalism and seriousness of answer contents in social Q&A communities have ...
Along with the proliferation of the social web, question and answer (QA) sites attract millions of u...
Abstract—Social networking or social media sites are in-volved in our daily life. With the increasin...
Despite various studies on examining and predicting answer quality on generic social Q&A sites such ...
The World Wide Web has become a medium for people to share information. People use Web-based collabo...
Community question answering (CQA) sites use a collaborative paradigm to satisfy complex information...
Online question-answering (Q&A) sites are platforms for askers to seek information by posting questi...
While social question-answering (SQA) services are becoming increasingly popular, there is often an ...
This study investigates how people conduct elaboration and develops confidence in healthcare and tra...