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Table 1 Spearman correlation for different weights

From: A novel method for expert finding in online communities based on concept map and PageRank

Weights of content analysis (t) and social network analysis (n)

Average spearman correlation for 11 subsections and entire java online community

T 0.0 - N 1.0

0.877142549

T 0.1 - N 0.9

0.901276748

T 0.2 - N 0.8

0.904018451

T 0.3 - N 0.7

0.903982375

T 0.4 - N 0.6

0.901998248

T 0.5 - N 0.5

0.901998248

T 0.6 - N 0.4

0.887171408

T 0.7 - N 0.3

0.890147598

T 0.8 - N 0.2

0.878188724

T 0.9 - N 0.1

0.864101422

T 1.0 - N 0.0

0.82930109

  1. Bold numbers indicate that when "T 0.2-N 0.8" Spearman correlation between our results and scores prepared by java online community reaches the maximum value.