Confucius and Its Intelligent Disciples: Integrating Social with Search
Venue
Proceedings of VLDB 2010, 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB Endowment, pp. 1505-1516
Publication Year
2010
Authors
Xiance Si, Edward Y. Chang, Zoltan Gyongyi, Maosong Sun
BibTeX
Abstract
Q&A sites continue to flourish as a large number of users rely on them as
useful substitutes for incomplete or missing search results. In this paper, we
present our experience with developing Confucius, a Google Q&A service launched
in 21 countries and four languages by the end of 2009. Confucius employs six data
mining subroutines to harness synergy between web search and social networks. We
present these subroutines’ design goals, algorithms, and their effects on service
quality. We also describe techniques for and experience with scaling the
subroutines to mine massive data sets.
