Expertise retrieval has received increased interests in recent years, whose task is to suggest people with relevant expertise. Motivated by the observation that communities could ...
This paper presents Adaptive Web Search (AWS), a novel search technique that combines personalized, social, and realtime collaborative search. Preliminary empirical results from a...
Evaluating rankers using implicit feedback, such as clicks on documents in a result list, is an increasingly popular alternative to traditional evaluation methods based on explici...
This paper presents Latent Semantic Googling, a variant of Landauer’s Latent Semantic Indexing that uses the Google search engine to judge the semantic closeness of sets of word...
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...