A Virtual Mentor to Support Question-Writing on Stack Overflow

Recent studies on Stack Overflow show that question-related factors, such as conveyed sentiment and presentation quality, can significantly influence the probability of obtaining a useful answer. At the same time, the mentorship provided by human experts was proven effective in support novice users in effective question-writing. In line with previous empirical findings, we developed QAvMentor, a tool capable of providing online, real-time, automated mentorship during question-writing in Stack Overflow.