In nowadays manufacturing, each technical assistance operation is digitally tracked. This
results in a huge amount of textual data that can be exploited as a knowledge base to …

This survey presents an overview of information retrieval, natural language processing and
machine learning research that makes use of forum data, including both discussion forums …

Community question answering (cQA) forums provide a rich source of data for facilitating
non-factoid question answering over many technical domains. Given this, there is …

This thesis addresses the classification of documents and questions to domain-agnostic
class labels. Domain refers to the subject matter with which the class labels are associated …

Ground truth is a crucial resource for the creation of effective question-answering (QA)
systems. When no appropriate ground truth is available, as it is often the case in domain …

Community question answering (CQA) platforms provide a social environment for users to
share knowledge online. Users can submit complex and subjective questions on CQA …

In today's world, users prefer getting a precise answer to their questions rather than a set of
relevant documents provided by search engines. It has led to the immense popularity of …

Ground truth is a crucial resource for the creation of effective question-answering (QA)
systems. When no appropriate ground truth is available, as it is often the case in domain …

New questions have an increased chance of directly obtaining a relevant answer by
browsing from the archives, in lieu of waiting for a while to get a fresh response. This …

SQA communities are an impressive instance of knowledge sharing over the Web. A
tremendous number of questions are asked and answered every minute in prospering SQA …