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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

Community Question Answering (CQA) websites have become valuable repositories which host a massive volume of human knowledge. To maximize the utility of such knowledge, it is essential to evaluate the quality of an existing question or…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Yuan Yao , Hanghang Tong , Tao Xie , Leman Akoglu , Feng Xu , Jian Lu

Community Question Answering (CQA) websites have become valuable knowledge repositories where individuals exchange information by asking and answering questions. With an ever-increasing number of questions and high migration of users in and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Vaibhav Krishna , Nino Antulov-Fantulin

In an emerging trend, more and more Internet users search for information from Community Question and Answer (CQA) websites, as interactive communication in such websites provides users with a rare feeling of trust. More often than not, end…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Cheng Chen , Kui Wu , Venkatesh Srinivasan , Kesav Bharadwaj R

The rapid development recently of Community Question Answering (CQA) satisfies users quest for professional and personal knowledge about anything. In CQA, one central issue is to find users with expertise and willingness to answer the given…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Sha Yuan , Yu Zhang , Jie Tang , Juan Bautista Cabotà

Companies regularly have to contend with multi-release systems, where several versions of the same software are in operation simultaneously. Question answering over documents from multi-release systems poses challenges because different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Parham Khamsepour , Mark Cole , Ish Ashraf , Sandeep Puri , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh , Shiva Nejati

Motivated by suggested question generation in conversational news recommendation systems, we propose a model for generating question-answer pairs (QA pairs) with self-contained, summary-centric questions and length-constrained,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Li Zhou , Kevin Small , Yong Zhang , Sandeep Atluri

Community question answering (CQA) forums are Internet-based platforms where users ask questions about a topic and other expert users try to provide solutions. Many CQA forums such as Quora, Stackoverflow, Yahoo!Answer, StackExchange exist…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Nafis Sajid , Md Rashidul Hasan , Muhammad Ibrahim

Community Question Answering forums such as Quora, Stackoverflow are rich knowledge resources, often catering to information on topics overlooked by major search engines. Answers submitted to these forums are often elaborated, contain spam,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Tanya Chowdhury , Tanmoy Chakraborty

In this paper, we present a framework for Question Difficulty and Expertise Estimation (QDEE) in Community Question Answering sites (CQAs) such as Yahoo! Answers and Stack Overflow, which tackles a fundamental challenge in crowdsourcing:…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Jiankai Sun , Sobhan Moosavi , Rajiv Ramnath , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Stack Overflow is one of the most popular Programming Community-based Question Answering (PCQA) websites that has attracted more and more users in recent years. When users raise or inquire questions in Stack Overflow, providing related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Jiayan Pei , Yimin Wu , Zishan Qin , Yao Cong , Jingtao Guan

We present SQuAI (https://squai.scads.ai/), a scalable and trustworthy multi-agent retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework for scientific question answering (QA) with large language models (LLMs). SQuAI addresses key limitations of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ines Besrour , Jingbo He , Tobias Schreieder , Michael Färber

Complex question-answering (CQA) involves answering complex natural-language questions on a knowledge base (KB). However, the conventional neural program induction (NPI) approach exhibits uneven performance when the questions have different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yuncheng Hua , Yuan-Fang Li , Gholamreza Haffari , Guilin Qi , Tongtong Wu

The retriever-reader pipeline has shown promising performance in open-domain QA but suffers from a very slow inference speed. Recently proposed question retrieval models tackle this problem by indexing question-answer pairs and searching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yeon Seonwoo , Juhee Son , Jiho Jin , Sang-Woo Lee , Ji-Hoon Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Alice Oh

Open-domain question answering (QA) aims to find the answer to a question from a large collection of documents.Though many models for single-document machine comprehension have achieved strong performance, there is still much room for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Mantong Zhou , Zhouxing Shi , Minlie Huang , Xiaoyan Zhu

Schema matching is a central challenge for data integration systems. Inspired by the popularity and the success of crowdsourcing platforms, we explore the use of crowdsourcing to reduce the uncertainty of schema matching. Since…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Chen Jason Zhang , Lei Chen , H. V. Jagadish , Mengchen Zhang , Yongxin Tong

Question Answering (QA) is a natural language processing task that aims at obtaining relevant answers to user questions. While some progress has been made in this area, biomedical questions are still a challenge to most QA approaches, due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Andre Lamurias , Diana Sousa , Francisco M. Couto

In community question answering (cQA) platforms like Stack Overflow, related question retrieval is recognized as a fundamental task that allows users to retrieve related questions to answer user queries automatically. Although many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xiao Ao , Jie Zou , Yibiao Wei , Peng Wang , Weikang Guo

Supplying data augmentation to conversational question answering (CQA) can effectively improve model performance. However, there is less improvement from single-turn datasets in CQA due to the distribution gap between single-turn and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Baokui Li , Sen Zhang , Wangshu Zhang , Yicheng Chen , Changlin Yang , Sen Hu , Teng Xu , Siye liu , Jiwei Li

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…

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