Abstract
The research areas1 of researchers can be identified using their publication that reflects their current interest. However, the full text of these publications is not always available. Other data regarding these publications, such as titles, are available in many bibliographic databases, but these data are usually short, sparse, and multidimensional.
In this paper, we propose an approach for identifying the research areas of faculty members using some of their publication, information retrieval and Wikipedia content. Wikipedia is one of the largest encyclopedias to date. It is collaboratively written and kept up to date. A prototype system was implemented and evaluated using real data. Accuracy of 89.3 % was achieved. The results are encouraging and show that keywords achieve the highest accuracy in identifying research areas.