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Stack Overflow provides a means for developers to exchange knowledge. While much previous research on Stack Overflow has focused on questions and answers (Q&A), recent work has shown that discussions in comments also contain rich…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Wenhan Zhu , Haoxiang Zhang , Ahmed E. Hassan , Michael W. Godfrey

In this paper we propose a novel approach towards improving the efficiency of Question Answering (QA) systems by filtering out questions that will not be answered by them. This is based on an interesting new finding: the answer confidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Siddhant Garg , Alessandro Moschitti

In community question-answering platforms, tags play essential roles in effective information organization and retrieval, better question routing, faster response to questions, and assessment of topic popularity. Hence, automatic assistance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Kuntal Kumar Pal , Michael Gamon , Nirupama Chandrasekaran , Silviu Cucerzan

Automated question quality rating (AQQR) aims to evaluate question quality through computational means, thereby addressing emerging challenges in online learnersourced question repositories. Existing methods for AQQR rely solely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Lin Ni , Qiming Bao , Xiaoxuan Li , Qianqian Qi , Paul Denny , Jim Warren , Michael Witbrock , Jiamou Liu

Recent development of large-scale question answering (QA) datasets triggered a substantial amount of research into end-to-end neural architectures for QA. Increasingly complex systems have been conceived without comparison to simpler neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Dirk Weissenborn , Georg Wiese , Laura Seiffe

The internet contains large amounts of low-quality content, yet users expect web search engines to deliver high-quality, relevant results. The abundant presence of low-quality pages can negatively impact retrieval and crawling processes by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Francesca Pezzuti , Ariane Mueller , Sean MacAvaney , Nicola Tonellotto

Text-based Question Answering (QA) is a challenging task which aims at finding short concrete answers for users' questions. This line of research has been widely studied with information retrieval techniques and has received increasing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Zahra Abbasiantaeb , Saeedeh Momtazi

The conventional paradigm in neural question answering (QA) for narrative content is limited to a two-stage process: first, relevant text passages are retrieved and, subsequently, a neural network for machine comprehension extracts the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Bernhard Kratzwald , Anna Eigenmann , Stefan Feuerriegel

This work aims to address the problem of image-based question-answering (QA) with new models and datasets. In our work, we propose to use neural networks and visual semantic embeddings, without intermediate stages such as object detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Mengye Ren , Ryan Kiros , Richard Zemel

Neural link predictors are immensely useful for identifying missing edges in large scale Knowledge Graphs. However, it is still not clear how to use these models for answering more complex queries that arise in a number of domains, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Erik Arakelyan , Daniel Daza , Pasquale Minervini , Michael Cochez

Recommender systems are a vital tool that helps us to overcome the information overload problem. They are being used by most e-commerce web sites and attract the interest of a broad scientific community. A recommender system uses data on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Fei Yu , An Zeng , Sebastien Gillard , Matus Medo

In Stack Overflow (SO), the quality of posts (i.e., questions and answers) is subjectively evaluated by users through a voting mechanism. The net votes (upvotes - downvotes) obtained by a post are often considered an approximation of its…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Saikat Mondal , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

Rapid development of Internet technologies promotes traditional newspapers to report news on social networks. However, people on social networks may have different needs which naturally arises the question: whether can we analyze the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Yuting Yang , Juan Cao , Mingyan Lu , Jintao Li , Chia-Wen Lin

The widespread application of deep learning has changed the landscape of computation in the data center. In particular, personalized recommendation for content ranking is now largely accomplished leveraging deep neural networks. However,…

Stack Overflow is one of the most popular technical Q&A sites used by software developers. Seeking help from Stack Overflow has become an essential part of software developers' daily work for solving programming-related questions. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Zhipeng Gao , Xin Xia , David Lo , John Grundy , Yuan-Fang Li

Applications that generate huge amounts of data in the form of fast streams are becoming increasingly prevalent, being therefore necessary to learn in an online manner. These conditions usually impose memory and processing time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Jesus L. Lobo , Javier Del Ser , Albert Bifet , Nikola Kasabov

In recent years, there have been amazing advances in deep learning methods for machine reading. In machine reading, the machine reader has to extract the answer from the given ground truth paragraph. Recently, the state-of-the-art machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Phu Mon Htut , Samuel R. Bowman , Kyunghyun Cho

Neural networks outperform kernel methods, sometimes by orders of magnitude, e.g. on staircase functions. This advantage stems from the ability of neural networks to learn features, adapting their hidden representations to better capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Niclas Alexander Göring , Charles London , Abdurrahman Hadi Erturk , Chris Mingard , Yoonsoo Nam , Ard A. Louis

Deep learning methods are useful for high-dimensional data and are becoming widely used in many areas of software engineering. Deep learners utilizes extensive computational power and can take a long time to train-- making it difficult to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Suvodeep Majumder , Nikhila Balaji , Katie Brey , Wei Fu , Tim Menzies

With the rise of social media and peer-to-peer networks, users increasingly rely on crowdsourced responses for information and assistance. However, the mechanisms used to rank and promote responses often prioritize and end up biasing in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Teng Ye , Hanson Yan , Xuhuan Huang , Connor Grogan , Walter Yuan , Qiaozhu Mei , Matthew O. Jackson