• DocumentCode
    1451427
  • Title

    Measuring Expertise in Online Communities

  • Author

    Yeung, Ching-man Au ; Noll, Michael G. ; Meinel, Christoph ; Gibbins, Nicholas ; Shadbolt, Nigel

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Commun. Sci. Labs., Kyoto, Japan
  • Volume
    26
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    26
  • Lastpage
    32
  • Abstract
    Online communities have become important venues where Web users interact with each other and share their favorite items. Websites let users organize their favorite items online and benefit from one another´s collections. This article discusses the notions of experts and expertise in the context of online communities.
  • Keywords
    Internet; Web sites; expert systems; Website; online community; Algorithm design and analysis; Data models; Measurement; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Tagging; Trojan horses; Unsolicited electronic mail; Intelligent systems; collaborative tagging; expertise; folksonomy; ranking; spamming;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Intelligent Systems, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1541-1672
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MIS.2011.18
  • Filename
    5714200
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1451427