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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2008
Ying Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Thomas Kreulen, San Jose, CA (US);
Ana Lelescu, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
James J. Rhodes, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William Scott Spangler, San Martin, CA (US);
Ying Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Thomas Kreulen, San Jose, CA (US);
Ana Lelescu, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
James J. Rhodes, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William Scott Spangler, San Martin, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and analytics tools for locating experts with specific sets of expertise are disclosed, the method including providing a collection of documents P; generating categories representing fields of expertise derived from the collection of documents P; refining the taxonomy of the categories by applying user domain knowledge; extracting structured fields from the collection of documents P; constructing a contingency table having a first axis defined by the extracted structured fields and a second axis defined by the categories; and using the contingency table to identify a set of experts having a related expertise. The method may also include a network graph analysis that aids visualization of the relationship between people and expertise.