2 Nov 2004
CS 5244: New Media for the DL
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HITS-based expert finding
nCampbell et al. did exactly this (03)
ˇ1. Retrieve all emails from group on subject using keywords search (e.g., “digital libraries”)
ˇ2. Run HITS on this set of emails to find authorities
ˇ3. Assess correlation with human judgment and compare vs. standard tf ranking approach
nLimitation:
ˇNeed access to emails
ˇEmail data needs to be classified to filter noise