Citation author topic model in expert search

Yuancheng Tu, Nikhil Johri, Dan Roth, Julia Hockenmaier

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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel topic model, Citation-Author-Topic (CAT) model that addresses a semantic search task we define as expert search - given a research area as a query, it returns names of experts in this area. For example, Michael Collins would be one of the top names retrieved given the query Syntactic Parsing. Our contribution in this paper is two-fold. First, we model the cited author information together with words and paper authors. Such extra contextual information directly models linkage among authors and enhances the author-topic association, thus produces more coherent author-topic distribution. Second, we provide a preliminary solution to the task of expert search when the learning repository contains exclusively research related documents authored by the experts. When compared with a previous proposed model (Johri et al., 2010), the proposed model produces high quality author topic linkage and achieves over 33% error reduction evaluated by the standard MAP measurement.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages1265-1273
Number of pages9
StatePublished - 2010
Event23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Coling 2010 - Beijing, China
Duration: Aug 23 2010Aug 27 2010

Other

Other23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Coling 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period8/23/108/27/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Linguistics and Language

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