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ICDM
2008
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Formal Models for Expert Finding on DBLP Bibliography Data
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...
Hongbo Deng, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Modeling expert finding as an absorbing random walk
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 ...
Pavel Serdyukov, Henning Rode, Djoerd Hiemstra
CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
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...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
CI
2004
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14 years 9 months ago
Purpose-Based Expert Finding in a Portfolio Management System
Most of the research inthe area of expert finding focuses on creating and maintaining centralized directories of experts' profiles, which users can search on demand. However, ...
Xiaolin Niu, Gordon I. McCalla, Julita Vassileva
CHI
2000
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Agents to assist in finding help
When a novice needs help, often the best solution is to find a human expert who is capable of answering the novice’s questions. But often, novices have difficulty characterizing...
Adriana Santarosa Vivacqua, Henry Lieberman