Choosing the right crowd: Expert finding in social networks

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 637-648

  Bozzon, Alessandro ^a   Brambilla, Marco ^a   Ceri, Stefano ^a   Silvestri, Matteo ^a   Vesci, Giuliano ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

crowdsourcing; expert finding; expertise finding; information extraction; information retrieval; semantic analysis; social network; user profile; web data

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; EXPERT FINDING; EXPERTISE FINDING; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USER PROFILE; WEB DATA;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; QUERY PROCESSING; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84876808131     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2452376.2452451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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