Voting techniques for expert search

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 259-280

  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 FUSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RAYON YARN;

DOCUMENT REPRESENTATION; EVALUATION RESULTS; EXPERT FINDING; EXPERT SEARCHES; RANKING; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; VOTING;

LEARNING TO RANK;

EID: 51049121374     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-007-0105-3     Document Type: Article

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