Knowledge sharing and yahoo answers: everyone knows something Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3110290, abstract = {Yahoo Answers (YA) is a large and diverse question-answer forum, acting not only as a medium for sharing technical knowledge, but as a place where one can seek advice, gather opinions, and satisfy one's curiosity about a countless number of things. In this paper, we seek to understand YA's knowledge sharing and activity. We analyze the forum categories and cluster them according to content characteristics and patterns of interaction among the users. While interactions in some categories resemble expertise sharing forums, others incorporate discussion, everyday advice, and support. With such a diversity of categories in which one can participate, we find that some users focus narrowly on specific topics, while others participate across categories. This not only allows us to map related categories, but to characterize the entropy of the users' interests. We find that lower entropy correlates with receiving higher answer ratings, but only for categories where factual expertise is primarily sought after. We combine both user attributes and answer characteristics to predict, within a given category, whether a particular answer will be chosen as the best answer by the asker.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Adamic, Lada A. and Zhang, Jun and Bakshy, Eytan and Ackerman, Mark S.}, booktitle = {WWW '08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web}, citeulike-article-id = {3110290}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1367497.1367587}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367587}, comment = {Having a low entropy in the distribution of topics in which you answer questions is correlated with higher answer ratings (you are more focused), but only in categories where factual answers are expected.}, doi = {10.1145/1367497.1367587}, isbn = {978-1-60558-085-2}, keywords = {answers, ranking, social}, location = {Beijing, China}, pages = {665--674}, posted-at = {2008-08-13 13:40:20}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Knowledge sharing and yahoo answers: everyone knows something}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367587}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3110290 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3110290 N2 - Yahoo Answers (YA) is a large and diverse question-answer forum, acting not only as a medium for sharing technical knowledge, but as a place where one can seek advice, gather opinions, and satisfy one's curiosity about a countless number of things. In this paper, we seek to understand YA's knowledge sharing and activity. We analyze the forum categories and cluster them according to content characteristics and patterns of interaction among the users. While interactions in some categories resemble expertise sharing forums, others incorporate discussion, everyday advice, and support. With such a diversity of categories in which one can participate, we find that some users focus narrowly on specific topics, while others participate across categories. This not only allows us to map related categories, but to characterize the entropy of the users' interests. We find that lower entropy correlates with receiving higher answer ratings, but only for categories where factual expertise is primarily sought after. We combine both user attributes and answer characteristics to predict, within a given category, whether a particular answer will be chosen as the best answer by the asker. CY - Beijing, China SN - 978-1-60558-085-2 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 674 TI - Knowledge sharing and yahoo answers: everyone knows something PB - ACM T2 - WWW '08: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web SP - 665 KW - answers KW - ranking KW - social N1 - Having a low entropy in the distribution of topics in which you answer questions is correlated with higher answer ratings (you are more focused), but only in categories where factual answers are expected. AU - Adamic, Lada AU - Zhang, Jun AU - Bakshy, Eytan AU - Ackerman, Mark PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1367497.1367587 ER -