Mining Shapes of Expertise in Online Social Q&A Communities
Varun Kumar, Niranjan Pedanekar · 2016
Expertise of an individual is metaphorically defined by shapes of letters such as I, T, M and hyphen, depending on her expertise in an area (depth) and the number of areas of interest (width). Industries have now started recruiting people with specific shapes of expertise. In this poster, we introduce the idea of mining shapes of user expertise in a typical online social Question and Answer (Q&A) community where expert users often answer questions posed by other users. We report observations on distribution of different shapes of expertise in a StackExchange community called Super User.