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The CS expert database: 1,777,551 experts · 2,837,695 papers in CCF A–C and ICORE A*–C venues · 10 venue-derived domains · snapshot 2026-09-22.
Experts by research domain — the database's own venue-derived domains; a paper can belong to several; active = at least one paper since 2021
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
419,855 active · 726,626 total · 856,312 papers
NeurIPS · AAAI · ESWA · CVPR · ICML · EAAI
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games
220,290 active · 419,218 total · 473,177 papers
AAAI · ICASSP · MTA · CVPR · INTERSPEECH · ICCV
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing
306,612 active · 637,688 total · 436,260 papers
TGARS · IGARSS · TITS · TII · CogSci · Bioinformatics
Systems, architecture and hardware
148,087 active · 345,638 total · 325,499 papers
IROS · ICRA · VTC · ISCAS · TJSC · IECON
Computer networks
105,468 active · 214,616 total · 249,845 papers
IOT · ICC · GLOBECOM · TWC · TCOM · TMC
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval
134,049 active · 269,256 total · 249,104 papers
IEEE BigData · CIKM · SIGKDD · TKDE · AEI · SIGIR
Theory of computation
38,447 active · 105,648 total · 202,645 papers
TIT · TCS · DAM · SODA · STOC · ICALP
Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
114,847 active · 268,055 total · 198,672 papers
CHI · SMC · TSMC · SIGCSE · PACMHCI · IJHCI
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages
76,605 active · 178,952 total · 173,661 papers
DATE · COMPSAC · CoDIT · PACM PL · TSC · JSS
Security and privacy
57,527 active · 109,981 total · 102,399 papers
TIFS · TDSC · USENIX Security · TrustCom · CCS · JISA
Experts by expertise
The expertise taxonomy: 90,661 topics extracted from 634,694 papers of 537,692 experts, organised under the ten CCF categories and 168 areas. Pick a category, then narrow down to a topic; every level lists its experts by weight.
Artificial intelligence
231,922 experts · 238,182 papers
33 areas · 23,066 topics
Theoretical computer science
84,688 experts · 103,442 papers
15 areas · 12,358 topics
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
119,266 experts · 88,175 papers
18 areas · 10,819 topics
Computer graphics and multimedia
99,217 experts · 74,150 papers
13 areas · 7,821 topics
Computer networks
79,947 experts · 72,281 papers
18 areas · 9,664 topics
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
83,822 experts · 68,869 papers
17 areas · 7,059 topics
Network and information security
67,706 experts · 53,290 papers
15 areas · 5,550 topics
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
111,858 experts · 46,353 papers
9 areas · 5,108 topics
Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
77,670 experts · 43,820 papers
16 areas · 4,757 topics
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
53,122 experts · 40,802 papers
14 areas · 4,459 topics
Artificial intelligence›Natural language and speech›Question answering and dialogue systems
area
4,818 papers · 11,870 experts
Sub-topics
92 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
task-oriented dialogue 310machine reading comprehension 270knowledge base question answering 238dialogue generation 182open-domain question answering 160question generation 148conversational agents 103spoken dialogue systems 99intent detection 97multi-hop reasoning 86community question answering 81table question answering 78math word problem solving 75visual dialog 71knowledge-grounded dialogue 68dialogue evaluation 66multimodal question answering 59multi-turn dialogue 54dialogue management 52natural language interface 52response selection 48dialogue understanding 41open-domain dialogue 41knowledge-intensive question answering 27long-form question answering 27dialogue modeling 24multimodal dialogue system 22answer generation 18conversational search 18multilingual question answering 16answer extraction 15dialogue dataset 15interactive question answering 15multi-party dialogue 15personalized dialogue 15question answering evaluation 15proactive dialogue 14retrieval-augmented reasoning 13collaborative dialogue 12question understanding 12medical dialogue systems 11question answering over structured data 11spoken dialogue 11answer verification 10dialogue 10question difficulty estimation 10strategy learning 10human-computer dialogue 9open-ended question answering 8question asking 8retrieval-based question answering 7robust question answering 7domain-specific question answering 6communicative acts 5information seeking 4reasoning-based question answering 4
Show 36 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
conversational modeling 9knowledge-intensive tasks 9multi-turn interaction 8span prediction 8intention detection 7medical reasoning 7question rewriting 7turing test 7answer re-ranking 6answer summarization 6reasoning consistency 6answer aggregation 5dialogue data augmentation 5document retrieval 5medical diagnosis 5reflective reasoning 5dialogue system training 4discrete reasoning 4iterative retrieval 4passage retrieval 4rational speech act 4causal regularization 3dialogue corpus annotation 3divide-and-conquer reasoning 3entity retrieval 3evidence selection 3financial multimodal reasoning 3interactive reasoning 3long-context memory 3question answering datasets 3question-answer extraction 3question-answering-based evaluation 3reading comprehension modeling 3reasoning trace evaluation 3situation understanding 3table-based fact verification 3
Experts on Question answering and dialogue systems
11,870 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years), summed over the area's topics