Exploiting social tagging profiles to personalize web search

Vallet, D., Cantador, I. and Jose, J. (2009) Exploiting social tagging profiles to personalize web search. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5822, pp. 629-640. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-04957-6_54)

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Publisher's URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04957-6_54

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the exploitation of user profiles defined in social tagging services to personalize Web search. One of the key challenges of a personalization framework is the elicitation of user profiles able to represent user interests. We propose a personalization approach that exploits the tagging information of users within a social tagging service as a way of obtaining their interests. We evaluate this approach in Delicious, a social Web bookmarking service, and apply our personalization approach to a Web search system. Our evaluation results indicate a clear improvement of our approach over related state of the art personalization approaches.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Jose, Professor Joemon and Vallet, Mr David and Cantador, Dr Ivan
Authors: Vallet, D., Cantador, I., and Jose, J.
Subjects:Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
Journal Name:Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher:Springer
ISSN:0302-9743
ISSN (Online):1611-3349

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