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Multi-View Approach to Suggest Moderation Actions in Community Question Answering Sites

4 Apr 2022Information Sciences 2022 4archive 2025-07-28

Issa Annamoradnejad, Jafar Habibi, Mohammadamin Fazli

With thousands of new questions posted every day on popular Q&A websites, there is a need for automated and accurate software solutions to replace manual moderation. In this paper, we address the critical drawbacks of crowdsourcing moderation actions in Q&A communities and demonstrate the ability to automate moderation using the latest machine learning models. From a technical point, we propose a multi-view approach that generates three distinct feature groups that examine a question from three different perspectives: 1) question-related features extracted using a BERT-based regression model; 2) context-related features extracted using a named-entity-recognition model; and 3) general lexical features derived using statistical and analytical methods. As a last step, we train a gradient boosting classifier to predict a moderation action. For evaluation purposes, we created a new dataset consisting of 60,000 Stack Overflow questions classified into three choices of moderation actions. Based on cross-validation on the novel dataset, our approach reaches 95.6% accuracy as a multiclass task and outperforms all state-of-the-art and previously-published models. Our results clearly demonstrate the high influence of our feature generation components on the overall success of the classifier.

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Community Question AnsweringNamed Entity RecognitionNamed Entity Recognition (NER)Question AnsweringQuestion Quality Assessmentnamed-entity-recognition

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Question Quality Assessment 60k Stack Overflow Questions Multi-view approach F1 Score .917 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report

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