In today’s knowledge-based economy, having proper expertise is crucial in resolving many tasks. Expertise Finding (EF) is the area of research concerned with matching available experts to given tasks. A standard approach is to input a task description/proposal/paper into an EF system and receive recommended experts as output. Mostly, EF systems operate either via a content-based approach, which...

In this paper, we present an algorithm for automatically building expertise evidence for finding experts within an organization by combining structured corporate information with different content. We also describe our test data collection and our evaluation method. Evaluation of the algorithm shows that using organizational structure leads to a significant improvement in the precision of findi...

The Duality of Expertise considers the “Expert” to be a social role dependent on an individual’s expertise claims and the opinion of their community towards those claims. These are the internal and external aspects of a person’s expertise. My Expertise Model incorporates this duality in a process designed for expertise finding software in an online community forum. In this model, a posting’s te...

His professional expertise encompasses electrical and electronic materials, electronic devices, organic ultrathin films, organic devices, and molecular electronics. His current research subjects are (1) fabrication and evaluation of organic ultrathin films, (2) optical and electrical properties of organic ultrathin films, (3) functional design and control of organized molecular ultrathin films,...

The Bamako Call for Action on Research for Health stresses the importance of inter-disciplinary, inter-ministerial and inter-sectoral working. This challenges much of our current research and postgraduate research training in health, which mostly seeks to produce narrowly focused content specialists. We now need to compliment this type of research and research training, by offering alternative ...

Institution-wide curriculum change is a costly, time-intensive and politically fraught undertaking. It challenge identifying who has responsibility for the empowered to it. The unbundling of traditional tri-partite academic role teaching, research service leaves gap in those communities decides what features curriculum. Using discourse analysis documentation, this paper analyses experience depa...