Discussion forums are the primary and most widely used venue for social learning and
communication in MOOC context. There has been an interest in the last few years to study …

The purpose of the current study is to identify the user criteria and data-driven features, both
textual and non-textual, for assessing the quality of answers posted on social questioning …

Software developers have heavily used online question-and-answer platforms to seek help
to solve their technical problems. However, a major problem with these technical Q8A sites …

Online forums sponsored by Electronic Networks of Practice are commonly used to
exchange information related to problem solving, but the quality of solutions posted on …

One important aspect of learning is through verbal interactions with teachers or teaching
assistants (TAs), which requires significant effort and puts a heavy burden on teachers …

Product-specific community question answering platforms can greatly help address the
concerns of potential customers. However, the user-provided answers on such platforms …

Characterizing the nature of students' affective and emotional states and detecting them is of
fundamental importance in online course platforms. In this paper, we study this problem by …

Practitioners often face ill-structured problems. However, it is difficult for instructors to assess
their students' work on such problems, as a broad set of solutions exist and may depend on …

The latest technologies in natural language processing provide creative, knowledge
retrieval, and question-answering technologies in the design of intelligent education, which …

In this paper, we propose a framework for building automatic recommendations of answers
in MOOCs' Discussion Forums. The general aim of this research is to contribute to …