What makes a high-quality user-generated answer?

Community-driven question-answering (CQA) services on the Internet let users share content in the form of questions and answers. Usually, questions attract multiple answers of varying quality from other users. A new approach aims to identify high-quality answers from candidate answers to questions t...

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Main Authors: Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian, John, B. M.
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100041
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17794
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Community-driven question-answering (CQA) services on the Internet let users share content in the form of questions and answers. Usually, questions attract multiple answers of varying quality from other users. A new approach aims to identify high-quality answers from candidate answers to questions that are semantically similar to the new question. Toward that end, the authors developed and tested a quality framework comprising social, textual, and content-appraisal features of user-generated answers in CQA services. Logistic-regression analysis revealed that content-appraisal features were the strongest predictor of quality. These features include dimensions such as comprehensiveness, truthfulness, and practicality.