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Technology & AISep 3, 2026

Comparing Retrieval Methods for Academic Advisor Discovery: A Six-Method Study of 768 CS Faculty Profiles Across 9 US Universities

We present a comparative evaluation of six information retrieval methods for the task of academic advisor discovery: ranking CS faculty members by relevance to a graduate applicant's research interest statement.

We present a comparative evaluation of six information retrieval methods for the task of academic advisor discovery: ranking CS faculty members by relevance to a graduate applicant's research interest statement. The methods span sparse lexical matching (Jaccard overlap, TF-IDF,…

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