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Adapting voting techniques for online forum thread retrieval

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.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35326-0_44

Abstract

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.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:forum thread search, ranking aggregates, voting techniques
Subjects:Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:Computing
ID Code:36368
Deposited By: Liza Porijo
Deposited On:17 Feb 2014 01:24
Last Modified:27 Aug 2017 08:51

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