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New Technology of Library and Information Service  2014, Vol. 30 Issue (6): 41-50    DOI: 10.11925/infotech.1003-3513.2014.06.05
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Review on Information Quality Evaluation of Online Community Question Answering Sites
Jiang Wen, Xu Xin
Department of Information Science, Business School, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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Abstract  

[Objective] To summarize the researches on the information quality evaluation of online Community Question Answering (CQA). [Coverage] Use Web of Knowledge and CNKI and reference retroactive method to retrieve English and Chinese literatures related to information quality evaluation of online CQA. [Methods] Literature investigation, summarized by research topic. [Results] So far, the researches on the information quality evaluation of online CQA sites focus on three aspects that are influencing factors of evaluation, manual evaluation and automatic evaluation, and for automatic evaluation, the machine learning application is the main method. [Limitations] Comparison of different solutions lacks specific quantitative evaluation. [Conclusions] There are some weakness in the current researches such as lacking authoritative evaluation criterion and lacking domain focus. In the future, more comprehensive and deeper researches are needed in this area, and automatic evaluation will be the hot spot.

Key wordsCQA      Information quality evaluation      Information quality     
Received: 26 January 2014      Published: 09 July 2014
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Jiang Wen, Xu Xin. Review on Information Quality Evaluation of Online Community Question Answering Sites. New Technology of Library and Information Service, 2014, 30(6): 41-50.

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