Making Sense of Responders' Evaluations of Question Answerability from Academic Q&A Sites
Qian Wu,
Chei Sian Lee,
Dion Hoe‐Lian Goh
Abstract:In academic Q&A, question cues are characteristics of natural language for responders to understand askers' needs. However, knowledge is limited concerning responders' answerability evaluations which could be influenced by question cues (e.g., emotional expressiveness, complexity) and topic types. To address the gap, this research conducted an experiment to investigate how different question cues and topic types influence evaluations of question answerability. Sentiment analyses were conducted to assess re… Show more
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