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Towards Recency Ranking in Community Question Answering: A Case Study of Stack Overflow

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In Community Question Answering, recency ranking refers to put the freshness answers with high quality in top positions of a ranking. Freshness is not related to how recent is the answer creation date, but to how up-to-date is the answer content. This is extremely important because the users need to get best answers quickly to solve their questions and, usually, they expect up-to-date solutions. In this paper, we propose a new approach to provide recency ranking in these environments and present a set of experiments that show the effectiveness of our proposal.

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            WebMedia '17: Proceedings of the 23rd Brazillian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web
            October 2017
            522 pages
            ISBN:9781450350969
            DOI:10.1145/3126858

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