Detecting experts on Quora: by their activity, quality of answers, linguistic characteristics and temporal behaviors

• Alexa (2015) Quora.com site overview—Alexa. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/quora.com

• Bouguessa M, Dumoulin B, Wang S (2008) Identifying authoritative actors in question-answering forums: The case of yahoo! answers. In: Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining

• Fast LA, Funder DC (2008) Personality as manifest in word use: correlations with self-report, acquaintance report, and behavior. J Pers Soc Psychol 94(2):334–346

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Furtado A, Oliveira N, Andrade N (2014) A case study of contributor behavior in Q&A site and tags: the importance of prominent profiles in community productivity. J Braz Comput Soc 20(1):5

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Gill AJ, Nowson S, Oberlander J (2009) What are they blogging about? personality, topic and motivation in blogs. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

• Hall M, Frank E, Holmes G, Pfahringer B, Reutemann P, Witten IH (2009) The Weka data mining software: an update. SIGKDD Explor Newsl 11(1):10–18

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Harper FM, Raban D, Rafaeli S, Konstan JA (2008) Predictors of answer quality in online Q&A sites. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

• Jeon J, Croft WB, Lee JH, Park S (2006) A framework to predict the quality of answers with non-textual features. In: Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

• Jurczyk P, Agichtein E (2007) Discovering authorities in question answer communities by using link analysis. In: Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management

• Kao WC, Liu DR, Wang SW (2010) Expert finding in question-answering websites: a novel hybrid approach. In: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

• Klout (2013) See how it works—Klout. http://klout.com/corp/how-it-works

• Liu DR, Chen YH, Kao WC, Wang HW (2013) Integrating expert profile, reputation and link analysis for expert finding in question-answering websites. Inf Process Manag 49(1):312–329

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Luo L, Wang F, Zhou MX, Pan Y, Chen H (2014) Who have got answers?: growing the pool of answerers in a smart enterprise social QA system. In: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

• Mahmud J, Zhou MX, Megiddo N, Nichols J, Drews C (2013) Recommending targeted strangers from whom to solicit information on social media. In: Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

• McLaughlin HG (1969) SMOG grading—a new readability formula. J Read 12(8):639–646

  Google Scholar 

• Pal A, Farzan R, Konstan JA, Kraut RE (2011) Early detection of potential experts in question answering communities. In: Proceedings of the 19th international conference on User modeling, adaption, and personalization

• Pal A, Harper FM, Konstan JA (2012) Exploring question selection bias to identify experts and potential experts in community question answering. ACM Trans Inf Syst 30(2):10:1–10:28

• Paul SA, Hong L, Chi EH (2012) Who is authoritative? understanding reputation mechanisms in Quora. In: Collective intelligence

• Pennebaker J, Francis M, Booth R (2001) Linguistic inquiry and word count. Erlbaum Publishers, Mahwah

  Google Scholar 

• Quora (2014) How are top writers chosen? what are the criteria for being chosen as a top writer? http://www.quora.com/How-are-Top-Writers-chosen-What-are-the-criteria-for-being-chosen-as-a-Top-Writer

• Riloff E, Wiebe J (2003) Learning extraction patterns for subjective expressions. In: Proceedings of the conference on empirical methods in natural language processing

• Schall D, Skopik F (2011) An analysis of the structure and dynamics of large-scale q/a communities. In: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on advances in databases and information systems (ADBIS)

• Song S, Tian Y, Han W, Que X, Wang W (2013) Leading users detecting model in professional community question answering services. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Green Computing and Communications and Internet of Things and Cyber, Physical and Social Computing

• Su Q, Pavlov D, Chow JH, Baker WC (2007) Internet-scale collection of human-reviewed data. In: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web

• Toba H, Ming ZY, Adriani M, Chua TS (2014) Discovering high quality answers in community question answering archives using a hierarchy of classifiers. Inf Sci 261:101–115

  Article  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

• Wang G, Gill K, Mohanlal M, Zheng H, Zhao BY (2013) Wisdom in the social crowd: an analysis of Quora. In: Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web

• Yang Y, Pedersen JO (1997) A comparative study on feature selection in text categorization. In: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning

• Zhang J, Ackerman MS, Adamic L (2007) Expertise networks in online communities: structure and algorithms. In: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web

• Zhou G, Liu K, Zhao J (2012) Joint relevance and answer quality learning for question routing in community QA. In: Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management

• Zhou G, Zhao J, He T, Wu W (2014) An empirical study of topic-sensitive probabilistic model for expert finding in question answer communities. Knowl Based Syst 66:136–145

  Article  Google Scholar 

• Zhu Z, Bernhard D, Gurevych I (2009) A multi-dimensional model for assessing the quality of answers in social Q&A sites. In: Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Information Quality

Download references