ExpertRank: A topic-aware expert finding algorithm for online knowledge communities

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1442-1451

  Wang, G Alan ^a   Jiao, Jian ^b   Abrahams, Alan S ^a   Fan, Weiguo ^a,d   Zhang, Zhongju ^c  

^a PAMPLIN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS   (United States)

^b State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Expert finding; Online community; Ranking; Social media analytics; Social network analysis; Vector space model

Indexed keywords

EXPERT FINDING; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; RANKING; SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; VECTOR SPACE MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VIRTUAL REALITY;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84875455438     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2012.12.020     Document Type: Article

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