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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jie Lu, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Jeffrey S. Boston, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Anni R. Coden, Bronx, NY (US);
Jennifer Lai, Garrison, NY (US);
Shimei Pan, Armonk, NY (US);
Mercan Topkara, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Zhen Wen, Springfield, NJ (US);
Stephen P. Wood, Thornwood, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method includes generating, as executed by a processor on a computer, a plurality of topic-specific user knowledge models for each user of a plurality of users, each topic-specific user knowledge model representing a level of knowledge possessed by a respective user on a single topic from a set of globally defined topics shared among the plurality of users, generating a plurality of topic-specific expert knowledge models, each topic-specific expert knowledge model representing an aggregate level of knowledge possessed by a plurality of expert users on a single topic from a set of globally defined topics shared among the plurality of users, comparing the topic-specific user knowledge model of the first user with the topic-specific expert knowledge model for a respective topic to determine a distance between a user knowledge level and an aggregate expert knowledge level for the topic.