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Predicting Question Quality on StackOverflow with Neural Networks (arxiv.org)
1 point by PaulHoule on May 1, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A neural network reads a Stack Overflow question's words and predicts whether it is high quality, so good questions can be flagged automatically. It got 80% of questions right, beating simpler machine-learning models, and its number of layers made a big difference.

Abstract

The wealth of information available through the Internet and social media is unprecedented. Within computing fields, websites such as Stack Overflow are considered important sources for users seeking solutions to their computing and programming issues. However, like other social media platforms, Stack Overflow contains a mixture of relevant and irrelevant information. In this paper, we evaluated neural network models to predict the quality of questions on Stack Overflow, as an example of Question Answering (QA) communities. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of neural network models compared to baseline machine learning models, achieving an accuracy of 80%. Furthermore, our findings indicate that the number of layers in the neural network model can significantly impact its performance.

Mohammad Al-Ramahi, Izzat Alsmadi, Abdullah Wahbeh
arXiv:2404.14449 · cs.CL, cs.LG · submitted Apr 20, 2024
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