TY - GEN
T1 - SEMO
T2 - 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016
AU - Lee, Jukyoung
AU - Choi, Yonghwa
AU - Kim, Suhkyung
AU - Kim, Seongsoon
AU - Kang, Jaewoo
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2014R1A2A1A10051238, 2012M3C4-A7033341).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 owner/author(s).
PY - 2016/4/11
Y1 - 2016/4/11
N2 - Many people seek majority opinions by searching for question-answers that are uploaded by others or uploading their own questions on social media sites. However, people have to read through a large number of documents returned by search services to find the majority opinions. Moreover, even when users upload questions on social media sites, they cannot immediately obtain answers. To address these problems, we present Searching Majority Opinions System (SEMO), a novel majority opinion-based search system that uses QA threads uploaded on SNS and cQA websites. SEMO returns entities based on majority opinions for opinion-finding queries in real time. We also tackled a data sparsity problem using a novel query component expansion approach. To prove SEMO's usefulness in finding majority opinions, we implemented a prototype of SEMO for the movie domain. We believe that our method can cause a paradigm shift in opinion-finding query search and help people make decisions. SEMO is available at http://semo.korea.ac.kr/
AB - Many people seek majority opinions by searching for question-answers that are uploaded by others or uploading their own questions on social media sites. However, people have to read through a large number of documents returned by search services to find the majority opinions. Moreover, even when users upload questions on social media sites, they cannot immediately obtain answers. To address these problems, we present Searching Majority Opinions System (SEMO), a novel majority opinion-based search system that uses QA threads uploaded on SNS and cQA websites. SEMO returns entities based on majority opinions for opinion-finding queries in real time. We also tackled a data sparsity problem using a novel query component expansion approach. To prove SEMO's usefulness in finding majority opinions, we implemented a prototype of SEMO for the movie domain. We believe that our method can cause a paradigm shift in opinion-finding query search and help people make decisions. SEMO is available at http://semo.korea.ac.kr/
KW - entity search
KW - majority opinions search
KW - social question answer
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85129838980&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2872518.2890553
DO - 10.1145/2872518.2890553
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85129838980
T3 - WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web
SP - 219
EP - 222
BT - WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 11 May 2016 through 15 May 2016
ER -