Patent ID: 8055670

Claim:
A method for replacing a title for a content item in response to a user generated content item, the method comprising: receiving a user generated content item including a user generated title and a user generated content body, said user generated content item representing a question or answer in a question and answer environment; identifying a plurality of related questions and answers, wherein identifying a plurality of related questions and answers comprises accessing a question and answer database and identifying a plurality of question and answer pairs that are related to user generated content body; generating a plurality of candidate substitute titles for the content item, the candidate substitute titles based on the user generated content body and the plurality of related questions and answers; calculating a first quality score for the user generated title; calculating an individual quality score for each of the plurality of candidate substitute titles; and replacing the user generated title with at least one of the plurality of candidate substitute titles on the basis of the quality scores associated with the candidate substitute titles, wherein replacing the user generated title is based on the output of a statistically trained classifier.