ExpFinder: A hybrid model for expert finding from text-based expertise data

Yong-Bin Kang, Hung Du, Abdur Rahim Mohammad Forkan, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Amir Aryani, Timos Sellis

Abstract: Highlights•We propose a hybrid model, ExpFinder, for expert finding from expertise text data.•ExpFinder integrates a novel n-gram vector space model and an extension of CO-HITS.•ExpFinder achieves a very high performance over 6 competitive models on 4 datasets.