Expertise drift and query expansion in expert search

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 341-350

  Macdonald, Craig ^a   Ounis, Ladh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expert finding; Expert search information retrieval; Expertise modelling; Query expansion; Topic drift

Indexed keywords

EXPERT FINDING; EXPERT SEARCH INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; EXPERTISE MODELLING; QUERY EXPANSION; TOPIC DRIFT;

FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EXPANSION;

EID: 55349109400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1321440.1321490     Document Type: Conference Paper

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