Question Difficulty Estimation in Community Question Answering Services

A Regularized Competition Model for Question Difficulty Estimation in Community Question Answering Services

QDEE: Question Difficulty and Expertise Estimation in Community Question Answering Sites

In this paper, we present a framework for Question Difficulty and Expertise Estimation (QDEE) in Community Question Answering sites (CQAs) such as Yahoo! Answers and Stack Overflow, which tackles a fundamental challenge …

DiffQue: Estimating Relative Difficulty of Questions in Community Question Answering Services

Automatic estimation of relative difficulty of a pair of questions is an important and challenging problem in community question answering (CQA) services. There are limited studies which addressed this problem. Past stud…

Question Difficulty Estimation for Large Language Models via Answer Plausibility Scoring

Estimating question difficulty is a critical component in evaluating and improving large language models (LLMs) for question answering (QA). Existing approaches often rely on readability formulas, retrieval-based signals…

Towards the Application of Calibrated Transformers to the Unsupervised Estimation of Question Difficulty from Text

Being able to accurately perform Question Difficulty Estimation (QDE) can improve the accuracy of students’ assessment and better their learning experience. Traditional approaches to QDE are either subjective or introduc…