Learning online discussion structures by conditional random fields
Hongning Wang, Chi Wang, ChengXiang Zhai, Jiawei Han · 2011
Online forum discussions are emerging as valuable information repository, where knowledge is accumulated by the interaction among users, leading to multiple threads with structures. Such replying structure in each thread conveys important information about the discussion content. Unfortunately, not all the online forum sites would explicitly record such replying relationship, making it hard to for both users and computers to digest the information buried in a thread discussion.