Analysis of the reputation system and user contributions on a question answering website: StackOverflow
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Movshovitz-Attias, Dana; Movshovitz-Attias, Yair; Steenkiste, Peter; Faloutsos, Christos
- Source
- 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013) Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on. :886-893 Aug, 2013
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Communities
Social network services
Knowledge engineering
Blogs
Conferences
Electronic mail
Computer science
- Language
Question answering (Q&A) communities have been gaining popularity in the past few years. The success of such sites depends mainly on the contribution of a small number of expert users who provide a significant portion of the helpful answers, and so identifying users that have the potential of becoming strong contributers is an important task for owners of such communities.