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This paper proposes a range of probabilistic models of local expertise based on geo-tagged social network streams. We assume that frequent visits result in greater familiarity with the location in question. To capture this notion, we rely on spatio-temporal information from users’ online check-in profiles. We evaluate the proposed models on a large-scale sample of geo-tagged and manually annotated Twitter streams. Our experiments show that the proposed methods outperform both intuitive baselines as well as established models such as the iterative inference scheme.
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Li, W., Eickhoff, C., de Vries, A.P. (2016). Probabilistic Local Expert Retrieval. In: Ferro, N., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9626. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30671-1_17
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