Discriminative probabilistic models for expert search in heterogeneous information sources

Information Retrieval

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 158-177

  Fang, Yi ^a   Si, Luo ^a   Mathur, Aditya P ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Expert finding; Expert search; Learning to rank

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953221101     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-010-9139-3     Document Type: Article

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