Enhancing Expert Search Through Query Modeling

Serdyukov, Pavel and Chernov, Sergey and Nejdl, Wolfgang (2007) Enhancing Expert Search Through Query Modeling. In: 29th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007, 2-5 April 2007, Rome, Italy.

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Abstract:	An expert finding is a very common task among enterprise search activities, while its usual retrieval performance is far from the quality of the Web search. Query modeling helps to improve traditional document retrieval, so we propose to apply it in a new setting. We adopt a general framework of language modeling for expert finding. We show how expert language models can be used for advanced query modeling. A preliminary experimental evaluation on TREC Enterprise Track 2006 collection shows that our method improves the retrieval precision on the expert finding task.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2007 Springer
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Databases (DB)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/61786
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_81
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