Learning to Rank Academic Experts
Catarina Moreira · QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) · 2011
Abstract. The task of expert finding has been getting increasing at-tention in the information retrieval literature. Still, the current state-of-the-art lacks in principled approaches for combining different sources of evidence in an optimal way. In the context of my MSc thesis, I will explore the usage of learning to rank methods as a principled approach for com-bining multiple estimators of expertise. This paper surveys the current state-of-the-art in both expert finding and learning to rank. It presents the fundamental concepts and the most important related works, also detailing my thesis proposal and the envisioned validation plan. 1