Konark Gill's research while affiliated with University of California, Santa Barbara and other places

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Conference Paper
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Efforts such as Wikipedia have shown the ability of user communities to collect, organize and curate information on the Internet. Recently, a number of question and answer (Q&A) sites have successfully built large growing knowledge repositories, each driven by a wide range of questions and answers from its users community. While sites like Yahoo An...

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... Most of the answers come from a small number of users, resulting in very sparse text information available to evaluate users [13,14]. Take the user's activities in Quora as an example [15,16], 90% of questions on Quora have less than ten answers and Over 30% of Quora registered users haven't responded to any question, the number of users who answered more than 4 questions is only 16.74%. Second, the capacity of text understanding of currently used deep neural networks (e.g., CNN's or LSTM's) is still limited, especially when dealing with short questions. ...
... The analysis of the interviews was complemented with 22 answer posts selected from Quora, a Q&A platform where users ask questions on a broad range of topics to access fi rst-hand information from other users or experts (Wang et al., 2013). I selected the user post using the purposive sampling method. ...