Evaluating algorithms for an expertise recommender system

• Main Author: Uma Manikantan
• Other Authors: Goh, Dion Hoe Lian
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Technologies
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1907
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study evaluates two algorithms, Support Vector Machine and Bayesian Logistic Regression as applied to an Expertise Recommender System, and compares the results. The expertise area examined is academic research, the information being extracted from faculty web pages of universities world-wide. T...