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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Answering why and why not questions in user interfaces
Modern applications such as Microsoft Word have many automatic features and hidden dependencies that are frequently helpful but can be mysterious to both novice and expert users. ...
Brad A. Myers, David A. Weitzman, Andrew Jensen Ko...
ICSE
2008
IEEE-ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Debugging reinvented: asking and answering why and why not questions about program behavior
When software developers want to understand the reason for a program's behavior, they must translate their questions about the behavior into a series of questions about code,...
Andrew Jensen Ko, Brad A. Myers
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
Harvesting Collective Intelligence: Temporal Behavior in Yahoo Answers
When harvesting collective intelligence, a user wishes to maximize the accuracy and value of the acquired information without spending too much time collecting it. We empirically ...
Christina Aperjis, Bernardo A. Huberman, Fang Wu
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Probabilistic question recommendation for question answering communities
User-Interactive Question Answering (QA) communities such as Yahoo! Answers are growing in popularity. However, as these QA sites always have thousands of new questions posted dai...
Mingcheng Qu, Guang Qiu, Xiaofei He, Cheng Zhang, ...