Organizers
Community Question Answering on the Web
In spite of the continuous progress of Web search engines in the last 20 years, many users' needs still remain unanswered. Subjective or narrow needs, for which content was not created before the need was expressed, will keep appearing no matter how Web search engines progress. This innate limitation of web search engines has led to the emergence of Community Question Answering (CQA) services in the last decade, such as Yahoo! Answers, Baidu Zhidao, Quora, Facebook Questions, and many other topic-specific forums such as Stack Overflow. These services are specifically designed to help users obtain information from a community, offering a wide variety of approaches and priorities. Most importantly, they serve an active community of millions of users, and continue generating a great deal of popular Web content.
This workshop aims to bring together, for the first time, researchers and practitioners from various areas working on CQA. Both academic and industrial participation will be solicited, including keynotes and invited speakers. Attendees researching any of the topics below (or possibly others, broadly related to CQA) are encouraged to submit a paper that would describe either novel research and results, or work in progress. We will also consider demos of innovative systems or prototypes, provided that they are accessible online throughout the reviewing process.
The Workshop Topics
Important Dates
- Eugene Agichtein [Bio], Emory University
- Gideon Dror [Bio], Yahoo! Research, Israel
- Yoelle Maarek [Bio], Yahoo! Research, Israel
- Contact info: cqa2012@easychair.org
Community Question Answering on the Web
In spite of the continuous progress of Web search engines in the last 20 years, many users' needs still remain unanswered. Subjective or narrow needs, for which content was not created before the need was expressed, will keep appearing no matter how Web search engines progress. This innate limitation of web search engines has led to the emergence of Community Question Answering (CQA) services in the last decade, such as Yahoo! Answers, Baidu Zhidao, Quora, Facebook Questions, and many other topic-specific forums such as Stack Overflow. These services are specifically designed to help users obtain information from a community, offering a wide variety of approaches and priorities. Most importantly, they serve an active community of millions of users, and continue generating a great deal of popular Web content.
This workshop aims to bring together, for the first time, researchers and practitioners from various areas working on CQA. Both academic and industrial participation will be solicited, including keynotes and invited speakers. Attendees researching any of the topics below (or possibly others, broadly related to CQA) are encouraged to submit a paper that would describe either novel research and results, or work in progress. We will also consider demos of innovative systems or prototypes, provided that they are accessible online throughout the reviewing process.
The Workshop Topics
- Question and/or answer quality
- Distribution and automated routing of questions
- Social aspects of CQA
- Question recommendation
- Detecting and eliminating spam or abuse in questions and answers
- Personalization for question and answer recommendation
- User modelling in CQA
- Monetization of CQA services
- Novel user experience in CQA
- Open datasets for CQA evaluation and research
- Search of CQA archives
- Bridging the gap between Web Search and CQA
Important Dates
| Jan 7, 2012 | Abstracts submissions (strongly recommended) |
| Jan 14, 2012 | Papers submissions due |
| Feb 2, 2012 | Author notification |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Camera ready due |
| Apr 17, 2012 | Workshop (one full day) |
Submission Guidelines
Papers should be no longer than 8 pages, including all references and figures. Papers should be submitted to the
Workshop Easychair.
It is highly recommended to submit an abstract prior to the paper submission deadline, in order to ensure proper reviewer assignment. See Important Dates for abstract and full paper submission deadlines.
Submissions should follow the ACM SIG proceedings format.
All submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Please ensure that any special fonts used are included in the submitted documents. All papers must be original and must not have been published or under review elsewhere.
Papers should be no longer than 8 pages, including all references and figures. Papers should be submitted to the
Workshop Easychair.
It is highly recommended to submit an abstract prior to the paper submission deadline, in order to ensure proper reviewer assignment. See Important Dates for abstract and full paper submission deadlines.
Submissions should follow the ACM SIG proceedings format.
All submissions must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Please ensure that any special fonts used are included in the submitted documents. All papers must be original and must not have been published or under review elsewhere.