A survey of Community Question Answering
It addresses practical issues for users and developers of community forums, but is incremental as it is a survey paper.
This paper surveys key challenges in community question answering, including finding answers to new questions and detecting duplicate questions, which are important practical problems due to the daily influx of questions on forums.
With the advent of numerous community forums, tasks associated with the same have gained importance in the recent past. With the influx of new questions every day on these forums, the issues of identifying methods to find answers to said questions, or even trying to detect duplicate questions, are of practical importance and are challenging in their own right. This paper aims at surveying some of the aforementioned issues, and methods proposed for tackling the same.