17. A non-transitory computer program product including one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause an apparatus to at least perform the steps for processing a query based on associating intent and audience: receiving, utilizing at least one interface, the query including text from a user; parsing, utilizing at least one processor, the text of the received query to identify one or more words and/or terms associated with the query; calculating a probability that the identified one or more words and/or terms are associated with one or more topics; identifying the associated one or more topics with the received query based on the calculated probability meeting or exceeding a predetermined threshold; mapping the identified one or more topics of the query to predetermined topics associated with the user based on one or more calculations determining a probability that the query belongs to the one or more topics that is a subset of the predetermined topics associated with the user; classifying the query as belonging to a public question class, a personal request class or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the identified one or more topics; determining one or more candidate audience members for forwarding the query based, at least in part, on the classification of the query and the one or more mapped predetermined topics of the query associated with the user that are shared by the one or more candidate audience members; and forwarding, utilizing the at least one interface, the query via a network to one or more devices of the one or more candidate audience members.
17. A non-transitory computer program product including one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause an apparatus to at least perform the steps for processing a query based on associating intent and audience: receiving, utilizing at least one interface, the query including text from a user; parsing, utilizing at least one processor, the text of the received query to identify one or more words and/or terms associated with the query; calculating a probability that the identified one or more words and/or terms are associated with one or more topics; identifying the associated one or more topics with the received query based on the calculated probability meeting or exceeding a predetermined threshold; mapping the identified one or more topics of the query to predetermined topics associated with the user based on one or more calculations determining a probability that the query belongs to the one or more topics that is a subset of the predetermined topics associated with the user; classifying the query as belonging to a public question class, a personal request class or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the identified one or more topics; determining one or more candidate audience members for forwarding the query based, at least in part, on the classification of the query and the one or more mapped predetermined topics of the query associated with the user that are shared by the one or more candidate audience members; and forwarding, utilizing the at least one interface, the query via a network to one or more devices of the one or more candidate audience members. 18. A computer program product of claim 17 , wherein the one or more candidate audience members are further determined based on a proficiency score that is based, at least in part, on a similarity between the one or more topics of the query and topics associated with a profile of the one or more candidate audience members, wherein the profile includes one or more preferences of the one or more candidate audience members.