Knowledge Spreading in StackExchange Q&A Community
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    StackExchange is one of the most popular Q&A rendezvous, including dozens of Q&A communities. In the paper, based on the Q&A relationships and the geographical information of users, this paper analyzes the knowledge spreading patterns in Q&A communities in StackExchange in USA and statistical characters of networks. It extracts spreading patterns of Q&A communities and obtains knowledge sharing methods of users. We find that, generally, a Q&A community may have several spreading sources. Meanwhile, it establishes a spreading network for each Q&A community and finds that most of these spreading networks share similar statistical characters, indicating that these Q&A communities have similar spreading patterns.

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陈风雷,傅晨波,宣琦. StackExchange问答社区知识传播.计算机系统应用,2016,25(10):11-17

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  • Received:January 19,2016
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  • Online: October 22,2016
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