Matching human actors based on their texts: Design and evaluation of an instance of the ExpertFinding framework

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 61-70

  Reichling, Tim ^a   Schubert, Kai ^a   Wulf, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community building; Expertise sharing; Keyword extraction; Knowledge management; Latent semantic indexing; User profiling

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY BUILDINGS; EXPERTISE SHARING; KEYWORD EXTRACTION; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; USER PROFILING;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 67650271880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1099203.1099213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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