Community question-answering (CQA) systems, such as Yahoo! Answers or Stack Overflow,
belong to a prominent group of successful and popular Web 2.0 applications, which are …

As new venues of information and tools for information access are emerging, people's online
information seeking behavior is dramatically evolving. While a majority of well-established …

Question answering (Q&A) websites are now large repositories of valuable knowledge.
While most Q&A sites were initially aimed at providing useful answers to the question asker …

Information seeking is a fundamental human activity. In the modern world, it is frequently
conducted through interactions with search systems. The retrieval and comprehension of …

Question answering (QA) helps one go beyond traditional keywords-based querying and
retrieve information in more precise form than given by a document or a list of documents …

Names: Baker, Paul, 1972–editor.| Egbert, Jesse, 1985–editor. Title: Triangulating
methodological approaches in corpus linguistic research/Edited by Paul Baker and Jesse …

Tens of thousands of questions are asked and answered every day on social question and
answer (Q&A) Web sites such as Yahoo Answers. While these sites generate an enormous …

Online workplaces such as oDesk, Amazon Mechanical Turk, and TaskRabbit have been
growing in importance over the last few years. In such markets, employers post tasks on …

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 …

The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person
turns to with an informa-tion need. One common way to search the Web is with a search …