HITS-based expert finding
n Campbell et al. did exactly this (03)
ˇ 1. Retrieve all emails from group on subject
using keywords search (e.g., “digital libraries”)
ˇ 2. Run HITS on this set of emails to find
authorities
ˇ 3. Assess correlation with human judgment and
compare vs. standard tf ranking approach
n Limitation:
ˇ Need access to emails
ˇ Email data needs to be classified to filter noise