Learning to recommend descriptive tags for questions in social forums

• Main Authors: NIE, Liqiang, ZHAO, Yiliang, WANG, Xiangyu, SHEN, Jialie, CHUA, Tat-Seng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Knowledge organization; Question annotation; Social QA; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1963; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2962/viewcontent/a5_nie.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Around 40% of the questions in the emerging social-oriented question answering forums have at most one manually labeled tag, which is caused by incomprehensive question understanding or informal tagging behaviors. The incompleteness of question tags severely hinders all the tag-based manipulations,...