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Community Question Answering (CQA) forums such as Stack Overflow and Yahoo! Answers contain a rich resource of answers to a wide range of questions. Each question thread can receive a large number of answers with different perspectives. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Alexander R. Fabbri , Xiaojian Wu , Srini Iyer , Mona Diab

To bridge the gap between the capabilities of the state-of-the-art in factoid question answering (QA) and what users ask, we need large datasets of real user questions that capture the various question phenomena users are interested in, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Abdalghani Abujabal , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Mohamed Yahya , Gerhard Weikum

Community Question Answering (CQA) is a well-defined task that can be used in many scenarios, such as E-Commerce and online user community for special interests. In these communities, users can post articles, give comment, raise a question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Shen Gao , Yuchi Zhang , Yongliang Wang , Yang Dong , Xiuying Chen , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Humans gather information by engaging in conversations involving a series of interconnected questions and answers. For machines to assist in information gathering, it is therefore essential to enable them to answer conversational questions.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Siva Reddy , Danqi Chen , Christopher D. Manning

We present a new dataset for chart question answering (CQA) constructed from visualization notebooks. The dataset features real-world, multi-view charts paired with natural language questions grounded in analytical narratives. Unlike prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Maeve Hutchinson , Radu Jianu , Aidan Slingsby , Jo Wood , Pranava Madhyastha

Efficient access to high-quality information is vital for online platforms. To promote more useful information, users not only create new content but also evaluate existing content, often through helpfulness voting. Although aggregated…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Chang Liu , Yixin Wang , Moontae Lee

Displaying community fact-checks is a promising approach to reduce engagement with misinformation on social media. However, how users respond to misleading content emotionally after community fact-checks are displayed on posts is unclear.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yuwei Chuai , Anastasia Sergeeva , Gabriele Lenzini , Nicolas Pröllochs

The most important problem that has emerged after twenty years of popular internet usage is that of fact-checking at scale. This problem is experienced acutely in both of the major internet application platform types, web search and social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Gregory Coppola

We introduce REALTIME QA, a dynamic question answering (QA) platform that announces questions and evaluates systems on a regular basis (weekly in this version). REALTIME QA inquires about the current world, and QA systems need to answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Jungo Kasai , Keisuke Sakaguchi , Yoichi Takahashi , Ronan Le Bras , Akari Asai , Xinyan Yu , Dragomir Radev , Noah A. Smith , Yejin Choi , Kentaro Inui

Community Question Answering (CQA) has become a primary means for people to acquire knowledge, where people are free to ask questions or submit answers. To enhance the efficiency of the service, similar question identification becomes a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Zizhen Wang , Yixing Fan , Jiafeng Guo , Liu Yang , Ruqing Zhang , Yanyan Lan , Xueqi Cheng , Hui Jiang , Xiaozhao Wang

Community-based fact-checking is a promising approach to address misinformation on social media at scale. However, an understanding of what makes community-created fact-checks helpful to users is still in its infancy. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Kirill Solovev , Nicolas Pröllochs

Reducing the spread of misinformation is challenging. AI-based fact verification systems offer a promising solution by addressing the high costs and slow pace of traditional fact-checking. However, the problem of how to effectively…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Huiyun Tang , Björn Rohles , Yuwei Chuai , Gabriele Lenzini , Anastasia Sergeeva

Researchers have found that fake news spreads much times faster than real news. This is a major problem, especially in today's world where social media is the key source of news for many among the younger population. Fact verification,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Suryavardan Suresh , Anku Rani , Parth Patwa , Aishwarya Reganti , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha , Amitava Das , Amit Sheth , Asif Ekbal

Community Question Answering (CQA) platforms steadily gain popularity as they provide users with fast responses to their queries. The swiftness of these responses is contingent on a mixture of query-specific and user-related elements. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Rima Hazra , Agnik Saha , Somnath Banerjee , Animesh Mukherjee

Large language models are playing an increasingly significant role in molecular research, yet existing models often generate erroneous information, posing challenges to accurate molecular comprehension. Traditional evaluation metrics for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Xingyu Lu , He Cao , Zijing Liu , Shengyuan Bai , Leqing Chen , Yuan Yao , Hai-Tao Zheng , Yu Li

Data-driven systems need to be evaluated to establish trust in the scientific approach and its applicability. In particular, this is true for Knowledge Graph (KG) Question Answering (QA), where complex data structures are made accessible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Aleksandr Perevalov , Xi Yan , Liubov Kovriguina , Longquan Jiang , Andreas Both , Ricardo Usbeck

This paper addresses the problem of determining the best answer in Community-based Question Answering (CQA) websites by focussing on the content. In particular, we present a system, ACQUA [http://acqua.kmi.open.ac.uk], that can be installed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-18 George Gkotsis , Maria Liakata , Carlos Pedrinaci , John Domingue

Community Question Answering (CQA) websites can be claimed as the most major venues for knowledge sharing, and the most effective way of exchanging knowledge at present. Considering that massive amount of users are participating online and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Chaoran Huang , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Boualem Benatallah , Xiang Zhang

We transfer a key idea from the field of sentiment analysis to a new domain: community question answering (cQA). The cQA task we are interested in is the following: given a question and a thread of comments, we want to re-rank the comments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Todor Mihaylov , Daniel Belchev , Yasen Kiprov , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

Two commonly employed strategies to combat the rise of misinformation on social media are (i) fact-checking by professional organisations and (ii) community moderation by platform users. Policy changes by Twitter/X and, more recently, Meta,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Nadav Borenstein , Greta Warren , Desmond Elliott , Isabelle Augenstein