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Although vote eases a Social Web for making decision, a final solution selected by vote is not always the best and might be a wrong answer. Its application without community deliberation obstructs the capability of individuals to share knowledge, create and edit contents, as well as emerge innovative ideas. Moreover, not all votes are reliable due to the increasing of vote spam phenomenon. Accordingly, the community knowledge in Social Webs confront with the reliability and quality issues. This paper, therefore, presents an empirical study of community deliberation in Social Webs by identifying its important components and social interactions in order to clarify the characteristic of an online community. By applying useful measures for analyzing the deliberation and achieving quality-assured consensual knowledge, the experimental results show that the proposed measures make a significant improvement in the accuracy of potential positions’ discovery comparing to the traditional voting method.
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Maleewong, K., Anutariya, C., Wuwongse, V. (2011). Is Vote Effective? An Empirical Study of Community Deliberation in Social Webs. In: Chiu, D.K.W., et al. Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2010 Workshops. WISE 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6724. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24396-7_14
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