A multilevel information mining approach for expert recommendation in online scientific communities

Computer Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1921-1936

  Yang, Chen ^a,b   Ma, Jian ^b   Silva, Thushari ^b   Liu, Xiaoyan ^c   Hua, Zhongsheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

author topic model; expert recommendation; multilevel framework; recommender systems; scientific social network analysis

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CONNECTIVITY INFORMATION; EXPERT RECOMMENDATIONS; INTEGRATING RESEARCH; MULTILEVEL FRAMEWORK; RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SOCIAL NETWORK INFORMATIONS; TOPIC MODELING;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84940705366     PISSN: 00104620     EISSN: 14602067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/comjnl/bxu033     Document Type: Article

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