“…Many of the uses of CQA archives suit one of the two types of questions and can therefore benefit from automated classification. Supporting question retrieval (Jeon, Croft, & Lee, 2005) and serving CQA-intent queries on Web search (Levi, Guy, Raiber, & Kurland, 2018), perhaps the two most common practices of CQA archives, correspond to the informational type questions, and with the recent advancements in social media mining, conversational questions in the archives can be used to support a variety of applications, such as opinion mining (Pang & Lee, 2008), controversy detection (Dori-Hacohen & Allan, 2015), and automated debating (Gurevych, Hovy, Slonim, & Stein, 2016).…”