Sustainable Questions: Determining the Expiration Date of Answers
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| Publication date | 2012 |
| Book title | SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Time-aware Information Access: #TAIA2012. Accepted papers |
| Event | SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Time-aware Information Access: #TAIA2012 |
| Publisher | Microsoft Research |
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| Abstract | Community question answering platforms have large repositories of already answered questions. Reusing these answers for new questions is tempting. However, not all stored answers will still be relevant. In this study, we define a new and challenging problem concerning the sustainability of questions and answers, and present metrics aimed at distinguishing between sustainable and unsustain- able questions. We find that an intuitive approach to sustainability of questions is not sufficient, but that simple properties can already distinguish between sustainable questions and others. |
| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
| Published at | http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/milads/taia2012-sustainable.pdf |
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