NDLI: Assessing post usage for measuring the quality of forum posts

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Chai, K. Hayati, P. Potdar, V. Chen Wu Talevski, A.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: Digital Ecosystems and Business Intelligence Institute, Curtin University, Perth, Australia (Chai, K.; Hayati, P.; Potdar, V.; Chen Wu; Talevski, A.)
Abstract	It has become difficult to discover quality content within forums websites due to the increasing amount of User Generated Content (UGC) on the Web. Many existing websites have relied on their users to explicitly rate content quality. The main problem with this approach is that the majority of content often receives insufficient rating. Current automated content rating solutions have evaluated linguistic features of UGC but are less effective for different types of online communities. We propose a novel approach that assesses post usage to measure the quality of forum posts. Post usage can be viewed as implicit user ratings derived from their usage behaviour. The proposed model is validated against an operational forum using Matthews Correlation Coefficient to measure performance. Our model serves as a basis of exploring content usage to measure content quality in forums and other Web 2.0 platforms.
Starting Page	233
Ending Page	238
File Size	423247
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424455515
ISSN	21504938
e-ISBN	9781424455539
DOI	10.1109/DEST.2010.5610640
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-04-13
Publisher Place	United Arab Emirates
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	web usage mining user generated content Correlation forums Navigation Biological system modeling Conferences Ecosystems Communities content usage content quality assessment Mice
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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