Expertise Identification Based on Co-word Network

Zhou Meng-huan · Information Sciences · 2012

Automatic expertise identification plays an important role in sustaining the competence of an organization.This article presents a novel way in discovering expertise based on co-word network.Firstly keywords are extracted from documents associated with each expert,and then these keywords are clustered through community division algorithm.The theme of each community is named according to the degree centrality.The named themes are considered as the expertise of an expert.The experiment illustrates that this method is effective in discovering the expertise of experts,with an accuracy of 75.83%.

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