Learning to recommend questions based on public interest

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the problem of question recommendation in the setting of Community Question Answering (CQA). Given a question as query, our goal is to rank all of the retrieved questions according to their likelihood of being good recommendations for the query. In this paper, we propose a notion of public interest, and show how public interest can boost the performance of question recommendation. In particular, to model public interest in question recommendation, we build a language model to combine relevance score to the query and popularity score regarding question popularity. Experimental results on Yahoo!Answers dataset demonstrate the performance of question recommendation can be greatly improved with considering the public interest.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCIKM'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Pages2029-2032
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'11 - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Duration: 24 Oct 201128 Oct 2011

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Conference

Conference20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'11
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityGlasgow
Period24/10/1128/10/11

Keywords

  • cqa
  • public interest
  • question recommendation

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