Future Challenges in Expertise Retrieval

Invited talk: Expert Finding = Finding People + Assessing Expertise
Arjen de Vries
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Finding People and Documents, Using Web 2.0 Data
Einat Amitay, David Carmel, Nadav Golbandi, Nadav Har’El, Shila Ofek-Koifman, Sivan Yogev
(IBM, Yahoo)
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Expert Search using Internal Corporate Blogs
Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, Kelly Lyons, Yelena Yesha
(Yahoo! Applied Research, UMBC, University of Toronto)
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Expertise Retrieval Using Search Engine Results
Jiepu Jiang, Shuguang Han, Wei Lu
(Wuhan University)
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Being Omnipresent To Be Almighty: The Importance of Global Web Evidence for Organizational Expert Finding
Pavel Serdyukov, Djoerd Hiemstra
(University of Twente)
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Multidisciplinary Expertise Retrieval with an Application in R&D Management
Choochart Haruechaiyasak, Alisa Kongthon
(National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC))
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Integrating Contextual Factors into Topic-centric Retrieval Models for Finding Similar Experts
Katja Hofmann, Krisztian Balog, Toine Bogers, Maarten de Rijke
(University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University)
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Collaborative Expertise Retrieval: A Referral Approach to Finding Distributed Experts
Weimao Ke, Javed Mostafa
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Evaluating Relation Retrieval for Entities and Experts
Jianhan Zhu, Arjen P. de Vries, Gianluca Demartini, Tereza Iofciu
(University College London & The Open University, CWI & Delft University of Technology, Leibniz Universität Hannover, L3S Research Center)
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