Expert Finding in a Social Network

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.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: DASFAA
• Authors: Jing Zhang, Jie Tang, Juan-Zi Li
• Keywords: DASFAA 2007, Database, Expert Finding, Important Research Issues, Social Networks