Answers or no answers : studying question answerability in stack overflow

• Main Authors: Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan, Banerjee, Snehasish
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication; Answerability; Community Question Answering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144779
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Some questions posted in community question answering sites (CQAs) fail to attract a single answer. To address the growing volumes of unanswered questions in CQAs, the objective of this paper is two-fold. First, it aims to develop a conceptual framework known as the Quest-for-Answer to explain why s...