iMecho: An associative memory based desktop search system

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 731-740

  Chen, Jidong ^a   Guo, Hang ^a   Wu, Wentao ^b   Wang, Wei ^b  

^a EMC Research China   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Associative search; Desktop search; Personalized ranking

Indexed keywords

ACCESS PATTERNS; ASSOCIATION GRAPH; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORIES; ASSOCIATIVE SEARCH; DESKTOP SEARCH; DESKTOP SEARCH ENGINES; FACETED SEARCH; KEY WORD MATCHING; KEYWORD SEARCH; KEYWORD-BASED SEARCH; PERSONAL PREFERENCES; PERSONAL SEARCH ENGINES; PRECISION AND RECALL; SEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH SYSTEM; SEMANTIC LINK; USER ACTIVITY;

ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SEARCHING; SAFETY DEVICES; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

EID: 74549159141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1645953.1646046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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