Harnessing user contributions and dynamic profiling to better satisfy individual information search needs

International Journal of Web and Grid Services

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-79

  Shtykh, Roman Y ^a   Jin, Qun ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collaborative personalised search; Dynamic user profiling; Relevance feedback; Subjective concept directed vertical search; Subjective index

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

COLLABORATIVE PERSONALISED SEARCH; DYNAMIC USER PROFILING; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; SUBJECTIVE CONCEPT-DIRECTED VERTICAL SEARCH; SUBJECTIVE INDEX;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 46449114300     PISSN: 17411106     EISSN: 17411114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2008.018492     Document Type: Article

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