English versus Chinese: A cross-lingual study of community question answering sites

Alton Y.K. Chua; Snehasish Banerjee

English versus Chinese: A cross-lingual study of community question answering sites

The York Management School

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Abstract

This paper conducts a cross-lingual study across six community question answering sites (CQAs) from two popular languages used on the internet, English and Chinese. The CQAs from the two languages are compared on the basis of three perspectives, namely, answer quality, answer responsiveness, and corpus comprehensiveness. Results indicate that there exist no statistically significant differences between the English CQAs and the Chinese CQAs in terms of answer quality. However, English CQAs appear to fare better in terms of answer responsiveness, whereas Chinese CQAs seem to perform better in terms of corpus comprehensiveness. The implications of the findings are discussed. Finally, the paper concludes with notes on limitations and future work.

Original language	English
Pages	368-373
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists: Internet Computing and Web Services - , Hong Kong Duration: 13 Mar 2013 → 15 Mar 2013 http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2013/

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Conference	International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
Period	13/03/13 → 15/03/13
Internet address	http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2013/

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