TY - JOUR AU - Ravi, Sujith AU - Pang, Bo AU - Rastogi, Vibhor AU - Kumar, Ravi PY - 2014/05/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Great Question! Question Quality in Community Q&A JF - Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media JA - ICWSM VL - 8 IS - 1 SE - Full Papers DO - 10.1609/icwsm.v8i1.14529 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/14529 SP - 426-435 AB - <p> <p class="p1">Asking the right question in the right way is an art (and a science). In a community question-answering setting, a good question is not just one that is found to be useful by other people: a question is good if it is also presented clearly and shows prior research.  Using a community question-answering site that allows voting over the questions, we show that there is a notion of question quality that goes <em>beyond</em> mere popularity. We present techniques using latent topic models to automatically predict the quality of questions based on their content. Our best system achieves a prediction accuracy of 72%, beating out strong baselines by a significant amount. We also examine the effect of  question quality on the dynamics of user behavior and the longevity of questions.</p><p> </p> </p> ER -