Panoptic Expert: Searching for experts not just for documents

By Nick Craswell, David Hawking, A. Vercoustre, Peter Wilkins. 2001

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From amateurs to connoisseurs: modeling the evolution of user expertise through online reviews (2013, background): “This topic is known as expert recommendation [1, 6, 7, 16, 17], and has applications to product ranking and review summarization, among others.”
Formal models for expert finding in enterprise corpora (2006, background): “Each model ranks candidates according to the probability of the candidate being an expert given the query topic, but the models differ in how this is performed.”
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task (2006, background): “proposed concatenating the terms of all documents in each profile into “virtual documents”, and ranking these using a traditional IR system [7].”