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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.
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Vallet, D., Cantador, I., Jose, J.M. (2009). Exploiting Social Tagging Profiles to Personalize Web Search. In: Andreasen, T., Yager, R.R., Bulskov, H., Christiansen, H., Larsen, H.L. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5822. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04957-6_54
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