This line of research aims to develop generative probabilistic models for expert finding and profiling. Using standard Language Models from Ad Hoc Retrieval as the basis for this research, two models of expert finding were formalized (SIGIR 2006) and extended to capture more context (SIGIR 2007).

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This work was performed in conjunction with Krisztian Balog and Maarten de Rijke. Krisztian’s completed his PhD Thesis on Expertise Retrieval in 2008 and is an excellent summary on research in this area.