Wiser: A semantic approach for expert finding in academia based on entity linking

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Highlights:

• Wiser, a new semantic search engine for expert finding in academia is proposed.

• A novel modeling for academic expertise through a small, labeled and weighted graph.

• A new set of scoring and ranking strategies for expert retrieval.

• Improvements of the state-of-the-art systems over a large-scale experimental test.

• Public available system deployed over the Research community of our University.

摘要

•Wiser, a new semantic search engine for expert finding in academia is proposed.•A novel modeling for academic expertise through a small, labeled and weighted graph.•A new set of scoring and ranking strategies for expert retrieval.•Improvements of the state-of-the-art systems over a large-scale experimental test.•Public available system deployed over the Research community of our University.

论文关键词:Expert finding,Expert profiling,Expertise retrieval,Entity linking,Information retrieval,Wikipedia

论文评审过程:Received 10 May 2018, Revised 30 July 2018, Accepted 18 December 2018, Available online 9 January 2019, Version of Record 11 January 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2018.12.003