This article outlines new technologies in the areas of automated expertise finding, expert network discover, virtual place-based collaboration, and automated question answering. We illustrate each of these areas with implemented and in some cases empirically evaluated systems. Collectively, these illustrate new methods for automatic discovery of knowledge, experts, and communities in an effecti...

In a very basic sense, the aim of knowledge discovery is to reveal structures of knowledge which can be seen as being represented by structural relationships. In this paper, we make this notion more precise and present a method how to extract structural information from statistical data. There are two key ideas underlying our approach: First, knowledge discovery is understood as a process which...