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WHAT IS
YAHOO!
ANSWERS ?

A community-driven
question - and - answer
website that allows users
to both submit questions
to be answered and
answer questions asked
by other users.

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FEATURES
 Allows any Yahoo! ID-registered user to
answer a pre-existing question or submit a
new question.
 All questions submitted to the site remain
actively open for four days, during which
any user may post an answer .
 Original poster (OP) can highlight a
specific response as the "Best Answer.“

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 Users other than the OP are able to
select the "Best Answer" democratically
through an open voting process.

 Exceptionally helpful user contributions

are occasionally curated on the official
Yahoo! Answers Blog by the staff.

 Misuse of Yahoo! Answers is handled by

a user moderation system, where users
report posts that are in breach of
guidelines or the Terms of Service.
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ARCHITECTURE OF
YAHOO!

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DATA STORED:

 user profiles that record users

interests, education, hobbies
and etc.
 predefines interest categories
and subcategories.

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 BIG DATA
 "Big data" is a field that treats ways to analyze or
deal with data sets that are too large or complex
to be dealt with by traditional data-processing
application software.
 Data with many cases (rows) offer greater
statistical power, while data with higher
complexity (more attributes or columns) may lead
to a higher false discovery rate.
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 Big data challenges :capturing
data, data storage, data
analysis, search, sharing,
transfer, visualization,
querying, updating, information
privacy and data source.

Three key concepts:

volume, variety, and velocity.

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USER INTEREST ANALYZER

 utilizes user’s profile information and user

interactions to determine the interests of the
user in the predefined interest categories.
 User interest vector

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QUESTION ANALYZER

▸ categorize a question into predefined

interest categories based on the topics of
the question.
▸ examine the tags and text of the question
and generates a token string.
▸ Compared to its Synset to determine the
categories where the question belongs.

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QUESTION –USER MAPPER

▸ The question-user mapper algorithm is

called while asking or forwarding questions.

▸ Question-User Mapper identifies the

appropriate answerers for a given question.

▸ Involves the concept of data mining.

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  Data mining, also called knowledge discovery in
databases, in computer science, the process of
discovering interesting and useful patterns and
relationships in large volumes of data.

 combines tools from statistics and artificial intelligence

(such as neural networks and machine learning) with
database management to analyze large digital
collections, known as data sets.
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1.Classification:
 used to retrieve important and relevant information about data, and
metadata.
 helps to classify data in different classes.
2. Clustering:
 to identify data that are like each other.
 helps to understand the differences and similarities between the data.
3. Regression:
 identifying and analyzing the relationship between variables.
 used to identify the likelihood of a specific variable, given the
presence of other variables.
4. Association Rules:
 helps to find the association between two or more Items.
 discovers a hidden pattern in the data set.

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5. Outer detection:
 observation of data items in the dataset which do not match an
expected pattern or expected behavior.
 used in a variety of domains, such as intrusion, detection, fraud or
fault detection, etc.
6. Sequential Patterns:
 discover or identify similar patterns or trends in transaction data for
certain period.
7. Prediction:
 analyzes past events or instances in a right sequence for predicting
a future event.

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 ▸ Content can be inappropriate for children.
▸ Reporting feature is easily abused to
have quality answers removed.
▸ Moderation is inconsistent.

DISADVANTAG
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THANKS!
Any questions?

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