6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising extracting a list of authors from search results associated with the expertise mining query and using the expertise mining algorithm to compute a coefficient corresponding to a relation of each document author to the original query.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising extracting a list of authors from search results associated with the expertise mining query and using the expertise mining algorithm to compute a coefficient corresponding to a relation of each document author to the original query. 7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising updating author ranks by merging result sets from the first and second post-processing stages, and sorting the updated author ranks in an order by rank to obtain a final result set including one or more user profiles.