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QualityRank : Measuring Authority of Answer in Q&A Community using Social Network Analysis  

Kim, Deok-Ju (국방대학교 전산정보학과)
Park, Gun-Woo (국방대학교 전산정보학과)
Lee, Sang-Hoon (국방대학교 전산정보학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Databases / v.37, no.6, 2010 , pp. 343-350 More about this Journal
Abstract
We can get answers we want to know via questioning in Knowledge Search Service (KSS) based on Q&A Community. However, it is getting more difficult to find credible documents in enormous documents, since many anonymous users regardless of credibility are participate in answering on the question. In previous works in KSS, researchers evaluated the quality of documents based on textual information, e.g. recommendation count, click count and non-textual information, e.g. answer length, attached data, conjunction count. Then, the evaluation results are used for enhancing search performance. However, the non-textual information has a problem that it is difficult to get enough information by users in the early stage of Q&A. The textual information also has a limitation for evaluating quality because of judgement by partial factors such as answer length, conjunction counts. In this paper, we propose the QualityRank algorithm to improve the problem by textual and non-textual information. This algorithm ranks the relevant and credible answers by considering textual/non-textual information and user centrality based on Social Network Analysis(SNA). Based on experimental validation we can confirm that the results by our algorithm is improved than those of textual/non-textual in terms of ranking performance.
Keywords
Knowledge Search service; QualityRank algorithm; Social Network Analysis;
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