PROBEXPERT: An Enhanced Q&A Platform for Reducing Time Spent on Learning and Finding Answers

Abstract

The World Wide Web contains a wide range of material from a variety of fields. However, when concerns towards the computer science domain, information users find on the internet may not be up-to-date due to the rapid pace of change and having to spend less time on the internet for researching and debugging tasks is an added luxury. Having an expertise level while providing answers through a platform is convenient for users, yet when a user signs into a platform, the user must start from the beginning, regardless of the level of competence in the field. Moreover, not having a proper way to evaluate the existing programming knowledge is another obstacle. To address mentioned complications, researchers of this paper have introduced a new e-learning platform- ‘ProbExpert’. The platform has been constructed with machine learning and deep learning approaches such as NLP, keyword extraction, semantic information analysis, cosine similarity, and information summarization. With aforesaid technologies, ProbExpert provides systems in automated answering, optimized answer generation, structured question-based quiz evaluation together with a fully automated portfolio generation with a novel user ranking algorithm based on the bell curve.