Adapting voting techniques for online forum thread retrieval
Online forums or message boards are rich knowledge-based communities. In these communities, thread retrieval is an essential tool facilitating information access. However, the issue on thread search is how to combine evidences from text units(messages) to estimate thread relevance. In this paper, we...
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| description | Online forums or message boards are rich knowledge-based communities. In these communities, thread retrieval is an essential tool facilitating information access. However, the issue on thread search is how to combine evidences from text units(messages) to estimate thread relevance. In this paper, we first rank a list of messages, then score threads by aggregating their ranked messages’ scores. To aggregate the message scores, we adopt several voting techniques that have been applied in ranking aggregates tasks such as blog distillation and expert finding. The experimental result shows that many voting techniques should be preferred over a baseline that treats threads as a concatenation of their messages’ text. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-363682017-08-27T08:51:25Z http://eprints.utm.my/36368/ Adapting voting techniques for online forum thread retrieval Salim, Naomie QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Online forums or message boards are rich knowledge-based communities. In these communities, thread retrieval is an essential tool facilitating information access. However, the issue on thread search is how to combine evidences from text units(messages) to estimate thread relevance. In this paper, we first rank a list of messages, then score threads by aggregating their ranked messages’ scores. To aggregate the message scores, we adopt several voting techniques that have been applied in ranking aggregates tasks such as blog distillation and expert finding. The experimental result shows that many voting techniques should be preferred over a baseline that treats threads as a concatenation of their messages’ text. 2012 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Salim, Naomie (2012) Adapting voting techniques for online forum thread retrieval. In: The International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications (AMLTA12), 8-10 Dec 2012, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35326-0_44 |
| spellingShingle | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Salim, Naomie Adapting voting techniques for online forum thread retrieval |
| title | Adapting voting techniques for online forum thread retrieval |
| title_full | Adapting voting techniques for online forum thread retrieval |
| title_fullStr | Adapting voting techniques for online forum thread retrieval |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adapting voting techniques for online forum thread retrieval |
| title_short | Adapting voting techniques for online forum thread retrieval |
| title_sort | adapting voting techniques for online forum thread retrieval |
| topic | QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
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