Modalities of Expert Search: How Users Transition Between Names and Topics.

@inproceedings{azimi-2026-modalities, author = {Marjan Azimi and Alistair Moffat and Justin Zobel}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Modalities of Expert Search: How Users Transition Between Names and Topics}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {3593--3597}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809949}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809949} }