Sobha K. Rani

Work place: Department of Information Technology, MVGR College of Engineering, Vizianagaram, 535005, India

E-mail: sobharani.t@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Social Information Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms

Biography

Sobha K. Rani is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology, MVGR College of Engineering, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh. She has a teaching experience of 9 years and has practical exposure to work on different platforms since 1996. She is pursuing Ph.D. in the areas of data mining, information retrieval and social networks.

Author Articles
Expert Finding System using Latent Effort Ranking in Academic Social Networks

By Sobha K. Rani KVSVN Raju V. Valli Kumari

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2015.02.03, Pub. Date: 8 Jan. 2015

The dynamic nature of social network and the influence it has on the provision of immediate solutions to a simple task made their usage prominent and dependable. Whether it is a task of getting a solution to a trivial problem or buying a gadget online or any other task that involves collaborative effort, interacting with people across the globe, the immediate elucidation that comes into anyone’s mind is the social network. Question Answer systems, Feedback systems, Recommender systems, Reviewer Systems are some of the frequently needed applications that are used by people for taking a decision on performing a day to day task. Experts are needed to maintain such systems which will be helpful for the overall development of the web communities. Finding an expert who can do justice for a question involving multiple domain knowledge is a difficult task. This paper deal with an expert finding approach that involves extraction of expertise that is hidden in the profile documents and publications of a researcher who is a member of academic social network. Keywords extracted from an expert’s profile are correlated against index terms of the domain of expertise and the experts are ranked in the respective domains. This approach emphasizes on text mining to retrieve prominent keywords from publications of a researcher to identify his expertise and visualizes the result after statistical analysis.

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