Expert Finding in a Social Network
Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 2 August 2007
Jing Zhang, Jie Tang, Juanzi Li
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Experimental results show that the proposed propagation-based approach can outperform the baseline approach and take into consideration both person local information and network information (e.g. relationships between persons).
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This paper addresses the issue of expert finding in a social network. The task of expert finding, as one of the most important research issues in social networks, is aimed at identifying persons with relevant expertise or experience for a given topic. In this paper, we propose a propagation-based approach that takes into consideration of both person local information and network information (e.g. relationships between persons). Experimental results show that our approach can outperform the baseline approach.
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