Finding Experts on the Web with Semantics

Anna Zhdanova, Lyndon Nixon, Malgorzata Mochol, John Breslin

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Thanks to our PC members…

Witold Abramowicz Diego Berrueta Chris Bizer Uldis Bojārs Aleman-Meza

Boanerges Irene Celino Tom Heath Tomasz Kaczmarek

Uwe Keller Alain Leger Ning Li Benjamin Nowack Charles Petrie Axel Polleres Leo Sauermann Robert Tolksdorf Holger Wache

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…and the conference sponsors

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What is “ExpertFinder”?

A collaborative initiative that aims:To devise vocabularies, rule extensions

(e.g., for FOAF and SIOC) and best practices for annotation of personal homepages, web pages of institutions, conferences, publication indexes, etc.

To provide adequate metadata to enable computer agents to find experts on particular topics

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What is “ExpertFinder”? (2)

The main goal of ExpertFinder is:To enable a Web-scale infrastructure for the

creation, publication and use of experts’ semantic descriptions to support various scenarios including:

Group managementDisaster responseRecruitmentTeam buildingProblem solving and on-the-fly consultation

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Typical scenario

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Experts based on content topics

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Today’s schedule

14:00 - 14:25Constructing a Semantic Campus for Academic Collaboration

14:25 - 14:50Finding Experts Using Wikipedia

14:50 - 15:30Keynote: Expert Querying and Redirection with Rule Responder

15:30 - 16:00Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:25Finding Experts by Link Prediction in Co-Authorship Networks

16:25 - 16:50Finding Topic-Centric Identified Experts Based on Full Text Analysis

16:50 - 17:15Towards Semantic Contact Management

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#1

“Constructing a Semantic Campus for Academic Collaboration”Natenapa Sriharee, Ravikarn Punnarut

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#2

“Finding Experts Using Wikipedia”Gianluca Demartini

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#3 (Keynote)

“Expert Querying and Redirection with Rule Responder”Harold Boley, Adrian Paschke

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#4

“Finding Experts by Link Prediction in Co-Authorship Networks”Milen Pavlov, Ryutaro Ichise

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#5

“Finding Topic-Centric Identified Experts Based on Full Text Analysis”Hanmin Jung, Mikyoung Lee, In-Su Kang,

Seung-Woo Lee, Won-Kyung Sung

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#6

“Towards Semantic Contact Management” Irene Celino, Francesco Corcoglioniti,

Emanuele Della Valle

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Links

http://fews.semanticweb.org

http://wiki.foaf-project.org/ExpertFinder

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-290

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Enjoy the workshop!