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Answer ranking in community question-answering sites

US8346701B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 23, 2009
Grant dateJan 1, 2013
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Expiry dateMar 11, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F16/334
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In some implementations, a plurality of first questions and corresponding first answers are identified at a community question-answer (CQA) site as a plurality of first question-answer (q-a) pairs. A query thread comprised of a second question and a plurality of candidate second answers is selected for making a determination of answer quality. A set of the first questions that are similar to the second question are identified from the plurality of first questions. First linking features between the identified set of first questions and their corresponding first answers are used for determining an analogy with second linking features between the second question and candidate answers for ranking the candidate answers.

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