Title
Exploiting Multiple Features for Learning to Rank in Expert Finding
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-53917-6_20
ADMA
Keywords
Field
DocType
Expert finding,Features,Language model,Learning to rank
Learning to rank,Data mining,Feature vector,Ranking,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Language model,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
Issue
Citations 
8347 LNAI
PART 2
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
16
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zheng Hai-Tao114224.39
Li Qi234567.01
Jiang Y.382.96
Xia Shu-Tao434275.29
Zhang Lan-Shan520.69