Searching an organization’s document repositories for experts provides a cost effective solution for the task of expert finding. We present two general strategies to expert se...
Finding relevant experts in a specific field is often crucial for consulting, both in industry and in academia. The aim of this paper is to address the expert-finding task in a...
An expert finding system allows a user to type a simple text query and retrieve names and contact information of individuals that possess the expertise expressed in the query. Thi...
A common task in many applications is to find persons who are knowledgeable about a given topic (i.e., expert finding). In this paper, we propose and develop a general probabilis...
We introduce a novel approach to expert finding based on multi-step relevance propagation from documents to related candidates. Relevance propagation is modeled with an absorbing ...