Enhancing expert finding using organizational hierarchies

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5478 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 177-188

  Karimzadehgan, Maryam ^a   White, Ryen W ^a   Richardson, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Expert finding; Graph smoothing; Organization hierarchy

Indexed keywords

EXPERT FINDING; GRAPH SMOOTHING; ORGANIZATION HIERARCHY; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 67650704855     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00958-7_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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