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CQA 2012 : CQA 2012 – a WWW 2012 Workshop on Community Question Answering on the Web | |||||||||||||||||
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Call for Papers Community Question Answering on the Web Workshop at the Twenty-first International WWW Conference (WWW 2012) http://research.yahoo.com/workshops/cqa2012 April 16, 2012 Lyon, France PAPER SUBMISSIONS DUE Jan 14, 2012 ================================================================ In spite of the continuous progress of Web search engines in the last 20 years, many users' needs still remain unanswered. Subjective or narrow needs, for which content was not created before the need was expressed, will keep appearing no matter how Web search engines progress. This innate limitation of web search engines has led to the emergence of Community Question Answering (CQA) services in the last decade, such as Yahoo! Answers, Baidu Zhidao, Quora, Facebook Questions, and many other topic specific forums such as Stack Overflow. These services are specifically designed to help users obtain information from a community, offering a wide variety of approaches and priorities. Most importantly, they serve an active community of millions of users, and continue generating a great deal of popular Web content. This workshop aims to bring together, for the first time, researchers and practitioners from various areas working on CQA. Both academic and industrial participation will be solicited, including keynotes and invited speakers. Attendees interested in discussing any of the topics below (or possibly new ones around CQA in general) are encouraged to submit a paper that would describe either novel research and results, or work in progress. We will also consider demo sessions provided that a URL pointing to a running open Web site is included in the submission. The workshop topics include but are not limited to: o Question and/or answer quality o Distribution and routing of questions (broadcast, friends, friends of friends) o Social aspects of CQA o Question Recommendation o Detecting and eliminating spam/abuse in questions and answers o Personalization for question and answer recommendation o User modeling in CQA o Monetization of CQA services o Novel user experiences in CQA o Open datasets for CQA evaluation and research o Search of resolved questions o Bridging the gap between Web Search and CQA The workshop will include invited talks as well as presentations of accepted contributions. The schedule will provide time for both organized and open discussion. Submission Instructions ======================= Papers should be no longer than 8 pages, including all references and figures. Papers should be submitted to the Workshop Easychair site http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cqa2012 It is highly recommended you submit an abstract beforehand on the same site in order to ensure proper reviewer assignment. See Important Dates for abstract and full paper submission deadlines. Submissions should follow the ACM SIG proceedings format http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates All papers must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Please ensure that any special fonts used are included in the submitted documents. All papers must be original and must not have been published or under review elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted paper will be expected to attend and present their findings at the workshop. Important Dates =============== Abstracts submission Deadline: Jan 7, 2012 Papers submission Deadline: Jan 14, 2012 Notification of acceptance Feb 2, 2012 Camera-ready submission: Mar 1, 2012 Workshop date: Apr 15, 2012 Organizing Committee ==================== o Eugene Agichtein, Emory University o Gideon Dror, Yahoo! Research, Israel o Yoelle Maarek, Yahoo! Research, Israel |
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