Patent Document ID: 8543532
Application ID: 12573522

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: extracting tags from a plurality of information sources reflecting the expertise of a user; creating a model of the user's expertise by applying a probabilistic analysis on the extracted tags; collecting assignment information including at least one or more specified areas of expertise associated with one or more assignment tasks; and matching the model of the user's expertise against the specified areas of expertise associated with the one or more assignment tasks.

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Claim 2:
2. A method of claim 1 , further comprising: clustering the tags into a plurality of tag sets based on a correlation among the tags within each of the tag sets; performing probabilistic matching on the tags against an expertise category model to select one or more tags in each tag set with high probabilities of matching; presenting the selected one or more tags to the user for confirmation; and inserting the confirmed one or more tags into a user profile, wherein the model of the user's expertise is created using, at least in part, the user profile.