Voting for candidates: Adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 387-396

  Macdonald, Craig ^a   Ounis, Iadh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Expert finding; Expert search; Expertise modelling; Information retrieval; Ranking; Voting

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATA STRUCTURES; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; EXPERT SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

EXPERT FINDINGS; EXPERT SEARCH; EXPERTISE MODELING; VOTING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 34547641727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1183614.1183671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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