Title
Predicting Best Answerers for New Questions: An Approach Leveraging Distributed Representations of Words in Community Question Answering
Abstract
Community Question Answering (CQA) sites are becoming an increasingly important source of information where users can share knowledge on various topics. Although these sites provide opportunities for users to seek for help or provide answers, they also bring new challenges. One of the challenges is most new questions posted everyday cannot be routed to the appropriate users who can answer them in CQA. That is to say, experts cannot receive questions that match their expertise. Therefore new questions cannot be answered in time. In this paper, we propose an approach which based on distributed representations of words to predict the best answerer for a new question on CQA sites. Our approach considers both user activity and user authority. The user activity and user authority are based on the previous questions answered by the user. We have applied our model on the dataset downloaded from StackOverflow, one of the biggest CQA sites. The results show that our approach performs better than the TF-IDF and Language Model based methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/FCST.2015.56
FCST
Keywords
Field
DocType
CQA, distributed representations of words, activity, authority
Question answering,Information retrieval,Computer science,Language model
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2159-6301
7
0.44
References 
Authors
20
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hualei Dong191.16
Jian Wang27316.74
Hongfei Lin3768122.52
Bo Xu49528.26
zhihao yang5365.07