Abstract
Social search is an approach to Web search that attempts to offer communities of like-minded individuals more targeted search services, based on the search behaviour of their peers, bringing together ideas from Web search, social networking and personalization. In this paper we describe the I-SPY architecture for social search and present the results of a recent live-user evaluation that highlight the potential benefits of our approach in a realistic search setting.
The support of the Informatics Research Initiative of Enterprise Ireland is gratefully acknowledged.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Selberg, E., Etzioni, O.: The Meta-Crawler Architecture for Resource Aggregation on the Web. IEEE Expert, 11–14 (January-February 1997)
Dreilinger, D., Howe, A.: Experiences with Selecting Search Engines Using Meta Search. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 15(3), 195–222 (1997)
Brin, S., Page, L.: The Anatomy of A Large-Scale Web Search Engine. In: Proceedings of the Seventh International World-Wide Web Conference (1998)
Kleinberg, J.M.: Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment. In: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, pp. 668–677 (1998)
Lawrence, S.: Context in Web Search. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 23(3), 25–32 (2000)
Glover, E., Lawrence, S., Gordon, M.D., Birmingham, W.P., Giles, C.L.: Web Search - Your Way. Communications of the ACM (2000)
Rhodes, B.J., Starner, T.: Remembrance Agent: A Continuously Running Automated Information Retrieval System. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Practical Applications of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technologies, pp. 487–495 (1996)
Budzik, J., Hammond, K.: User Interactions with Everyday Applications as Context for Just- In-Time Information Access. In: Proceedings International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, ACM Press, New York (2000)
Bharat, K.: SearchPad: Explicit Capture of Search Context to Support Web Search. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International World-Wide Web Conference (2000)
Raghavan, V.V., Sever, H.: On the reuse of past optimal queries. In: Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 344–350. ACM Press, New York (1995)
Fitzpatrick, L., Dent, M.: Automatic feedback using past queries: social searching? In: Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, pp. 306–313. ACM Press, New York (1997)
Glance, N.S.: Community search assistant. In: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, pp. 91–96. ACM Press, New York (2001)
Freyne, J., Smyth, B., Coyle, M., Briggs, P., Balfe, E.: Further experiments in collaborative ranking in community-based web search. AI Review: An international Science and Engineering Journal (2004) (in press)
Freyne, J., Smyth, B.: Query based indexing in collaborative search. In: Submitted to the 2nd International Conference in Intelligent Information Processing (2004)
Hill, W., Hollan, J., Wroblewzki, D.: T.McCandless: Edit Wear and Read Wear. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 3–9. ACM Press, New York (1992)
Wexelblat, A., Maes, P.: Footprints: History-Rich Web Browsing. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1997)
M.Twindale, D.N., Paice, C.: Browsing is a collaborative process. Information Processing and Management 33(6), 761–783 (1997)
Balfe, E., Smyth, B.: Case based collaborative web search. In: Proceedings of 7th European Conference on Cased Based Reasoning (2004)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2004 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Freyne, J., Smyth, B. (2004). An Experiment in Social Search. In: De Bra, P.M.E., Nejdl, W. (eds) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. AH 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3137. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27780-4_13
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27780-4_13
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-22895-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-27780-4
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive