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Quality-Aware Collaborative Question Answering: Methods and Evaluation. Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, and Roger H. L. Chiang. In Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (Barcelona, Spain, February 9-12, 2009).
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Quality-Aware Collaborative Question Answering: Methods and Evaluation Maggy Anastasia Suryanto, Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, and Roger H. L. Chiang. In Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (Barcelona, Spain, February 9-12, 2009). Prepared and Presented by Baichuan Li October 14, 2014
Outline • Introduction • Quality-Aware Framework • Expertise Based Methods • Experiments • Conclusion Paper Presentation 2/21
Introduction • Community-Based Question-Answering (CQA) Services Paper Presentation 3/21
Diverse Answer Qualities good poor fair Paper Presentation 4/21
Objective • Automatically find good answers for a user given questions from a community QA portal • answer features • user expertise of answers Paper Presentation 5/21
Quality-Aware Framework Paper Presentation 6/21
Expertise Based Methods Relevance score Quality score Paper Presentation 7/21
Expertise Based Methods Paper Presentation 8/21
Question Independent Expertise • EXHITS uses qscore_exhits(a) as the quality score of an answer a given in below equation: authority hub Paper Presentation 9/21
Question Dependent Expertise Paper Presentation 10/21
Question Dependent Expertise • EX_QD • EX_QD’ Paper Presentation 11/21
Answer Relevance Models • Answer ranking by Yahoo! Answers • Query likelihood retrieval model all answers and questions in the dataset Paper Presentation 12/21
Experiments • Methods Compared • BasicYA • BasicYA(subject + content) • BasicYA(subject + content + best answers) • BasicQL • Adopts query likelihood retrieval model to score the relevance of an answer • NT (classification based on non-textual answer features) • maximum entropy approach • 9 features Paper Presentation 13/21
Dataset Paper Presentation 14/21
Evaluation • The top 20 of the ranked answers of each methods were manually judged in terms of their relevance and quality. • The following evaluation metrics are used to evaluate the accuracy of the methods: Paper Presentation 15/21
Results Paper Presentation 16/21
Results Paper Presentation 17/21
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Conclusion • Introduce a quality-aware QA framework that considers both answer relevance and quality in selecting answers to be returned. • Develop several QA methods (namely, EXHITS, EXHITS QD, EX QD and EX QD') that consider answerer expertise to determine answer quality. • Conducted extensive experiments and these experiments showed that quality-aware methods can improve both quality and overall performance. Among them, the methods EX QD and EX QD' using question dependent answerer expertise have the best performance. Paper Presentation 19/21
Ideas Paper Presentation 20/21
Q&A Paper Presentation 21/21