“Social Q&A: An Online Question and Answer System”

Abstract

Question and Answer (Q&A) systems play a major role in our commonplace of living for info and data
sharing. Users post queries and choose inquiries to answer inside the system. As a results of the rapidly growing user
population and so the variability of queries, it's unlikely for a user to return upon a matter unintentionally that he can
answer. unselfishness does not encourage all users to produce answers, to not mention fine quality answers with a short
answer wait time. the primary objective of this paper is to reinforce the performance of Q&A systems by actively
forwarding inquiries to users World Health Organization area unit capable and willing to answer the queries. To this
finish, we have got designed and enforced Social Q&A, an internet social network based totally Q&A system. Social Q&A
leverages the social network properties of common-interest and mutual-trust friend relationship to identify an talker
through friendship that area unit probably to answer the question, and enhance the user security. we have a tendency to
tend to collectively improve Social Q&A with security and potency by protective users privacy and additionally retrieving
answers automatically for continual queries. We have a tendency to tend to explain the planning and algorithms, and
conducted comprehensive large-scale simulation to guage Social Q&A as compared with different ways. Our results
suggest that social networks area unit typically leveraged to reinforce the answer quality and asker’s waiting time. we
have a tendency to tend to collectively enforced a real model of Social Q&A, and analyze the Q&A behavior of real users
and queries from a small-scale real-world Social Q&A system.