Similar to other Web 2.0 platforms, user-created content on question answering (Q&A) sites raises concerns about information quality. However, it is possible that some of these sites provide accurate information while others do not. This paper evaluates and compares answer reliability on four Q&A sites. Content analysis of 1,522 transactions from Yahoo! Answers, Wiki Answers, Askville, and the Wikipedia Reference Desk, reveals significant differences in answer quality among these sites. The most popular Q&A site (that attracts the largest numbers of users, questions, and answers) provides the least accurate, complete, and verifiable information
Question answering (QA) systems answer the queries of users efficiently in the least amount of time....
Online question‐answering (Q&A) services are becoming increasingly popular among information seekers...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ways in which effectiveness of answers in ...
Similar to other Web 2.0 platforms, user-created content on question answering (Q&A) sites raises co...
Question answering (Q&A) sites, where communities of volunteers answer questions, may provide faster...
With the proliferation of the social web, questions about information quality and optimization attra...
Online question-answering (Q&A) sites are platforms for askers to seek information by posting questi...
Along with the proliferation of the Social Web, Question and Answer (QA) sites attract millions of u...
When people encounter questions, they often search for answers/solutions from Internet nowadays. Onl...
Abstract With the proliferation of the social web, questions about information quality and optimizat...
Question Answering (QA) systems offer an efficient way of providing precise answers to questions ask...
Despite various studies on examining and predicting answer quality on generic social QandA sites suc...
[[abstract]]The widespread use of internet has made the share of information and communications more...
A new study using the Butler University Q&A Intelligence Index measures how various mobile Q&A platf...
Despite various studies on examining and predicting answer quality on generic social Q&A sites such ...
Question answering (QA) systems answer the queries of users efficiently in the least amount of time....
Online question‐answering (Q&A) services are becoming increasingly popular among information seekers...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ways in which effectiveness of answers in ...
Similar to other Web 2.0 platforms, user-created content on question answering (Q&A) sites raises co...
Question answering (Q&A) sites, where communities of volunteers answer questions, may provide faster...
With the proliferation of the social web, questions about information quality and optimization attra...
Online question-answering (Q&A) sites are platforms for askers to seek information by posting questi...
Along with the proliferation of the Social Web, Question and Answer (QA) sites attract millions of u...
When people encounter questions, they often search for answers/solutions from Internet nowadays. Onl...
Abstract With the proliferation of the social web, questions about information quality and optimizat...
Question Answering (QA) systems offer an efficient way of providing precise answers to questions ask...
Despite various studies on examining and predicting answer quality on generic social QandA sites suc...
[[abstract]]The widespread use of internet has made the share of information and communications more...
A new study using the Butler University Q&A Intelligence Index measures how various mobile Q&A platf...
Despite various studies on examining and predicting answer quality on generic social Q&A sites such ...
Question answering (QA) systems answer the queries of users efficiently in the least amount of time....
Online question‐answering (Q&A) services are becoming increasingly popular among information seekers...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ways in which effectiveness of answers in ...