REC: A Novel Model to Rank Experts in Communities

摘要：

It is an important issue to get support from experts in our daily life. Expert finding is challenging. In previous commercial and academic systems, the users may not get what they expect. In this contribution, we address the problem of finding experts in communities. A novel model REC is presented to solve the expert finding problem in dynamic environment. The model ranks experts by textured and social information. Starting with the most familiar communities, the expert seeker may find appropriate experts, by considering both their local rankings in each community and the difficulty to get their help. Experiments are done on real data sets, including DBLP data set and W3C corpora. Compared with other existing methods.REC achieves promising results. It demonstrates the models competencies in various search applications.

作者: Chen Lin Haofeng Zhou Zhenhua Huang Wei Wang

作者单位: Dept.of CST,Fudan University Shanghai,200433,PRC

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Ninth International Conference on Web-Age Information Management(第九届web时代信息管理国际会议)(WAIM 2008)

会议地点: 张家界

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-07-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）