By: Anish K.S

Anish K.S — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:48:20 +0000

i am very much interested in Social bookmarking.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:26:15 +0000

Great post. I agree that using ‘intelligent text mining’ is an interesting approach to expertise location in companies (and on the internet). We experimented with this some time ago in our company with interesting results. This experiment was set up because – as we all experience – employees fill in their Yellow Page profile, but don’t keep them up to date. Relating the filled-in profile to mining could trigger employees to keep it up to date. And it could also (partially) fill in their profile.
We also combined this with a more social approach, which is now being capitalized in Guruscan(.nl). Because using mining to find and define expertise limits you to what’s in databases. And when we write reports about a tool, we don’t mention we’re very good at PERL programming for instance. So, this social layer collects the tacit stuff.
Here are some references:
– Samuel Driessen, Willem-Olaf Huijsen, Marjan Grootveld, “A framework for evaluating knowledge-mapping tools”, Journal of Knowledge Management, 2007, Vol. 11, Iss. 2, page 109-117.
– Willem-Olaf Huijsen, Samuël J. Driessen, Dion Slijp, “ExpertFinder: Collaborative Expertise Localization”, I-Media 2007.

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