Finding Experts in a Given Domain

1
Finding Experts in a Given Domain

• Chihiro Fukami
• Aswath Manohar

2
Who is an Expert?

• Cross-document frequency
• Explicit characterization
• Citations, publications, awards, quotes

3
Results

• French politics
• Cross-document frequency not a good indicator
• Famous physicists
• CD frequency good, but problems with name
  recognition
• Sports medicine
• Generally good results through good extracted
  patterns

4
Future Directions

• Improved name recognizer
• Improved pattern recognition
• More powerful MaxEnt classifier