Abstract
Expert finding is the process of identifying experts given a particular topic. In this paper, we propose a method called Learning to Rank for Expert Finding (LREF) attempting to leverage learning to rank to improve the estimation for expert finding. Learning to rank is an established means of predicting ranking and has recently demonstrated high promise in information retrieval. LREF first defines representations for both topics and experts, and then collects the existing popular language models and basic document features to form feature vectors for learning purpose from the representations. Finally, LRER adopts RankSVM, a pair wise learning to rank algorithm, to generate the lists of experts for topics. Extensive experiments in comparison with the language models (profile based model and document based model), which are state-of-the-art expert finding methods, show that LREF enhances expert finding accuracy.
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Zheng, HT., Li, Q., Jiang, Y., Xia, ST., Zhang, L. (2013). Exploiting Multiple Features for Learning to Rank in Expert Finding. In: Motoda, H., Wu, Z., Cao, L., Zaiane, O., Yao, M., Wang, W. (eds) Advanced Data Mining and Applications. ADMA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8347. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53917-6_20
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