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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2012
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jie Lu, Hawthorne, NY (US);
Jeffrey Scott Boston, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Anni Rosa Coden, Bronx, NY (US);
Jennifer Ceil Lai, Garrison, NY (US);
Shimei Pan, Armonk, NY (US);
Mercan Topkara, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Zhen Wen, Springfield, NJ (US);
Stephen Peter Wood, Thornwood, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system including a global topic model building module that builds a global topic model based on a set of data that is updated according to an activity of each user of a plurality of users, a user model building module that builds a plurality of user models, each user model being built based on an activity of a respective user, an expertise model building module that builds an expertise model for the topic based on the activity of at least one user of the plurality of users, the expertise model for the topic setting a target level of knowledge for a first user of the plurality of users, a processor to compare a user model of the first user with the expertise model for the topic; and an expertise assessment and learning recommendation module that recommends an activity associated with the set of data to the first user based on the comparison.