Conformity out of diversity: Dynamics of information needs and social influence of tags in exploratory information search

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5638 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 155-164

  Kang, Ruogu ^a   Kannampallil, Thomas ^a   He, Jibo ^a   Fu, Wai Tat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Exploratory search; Information needs diversity; Semantic interpretation of tags; Tag choice

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC EFFECTS; EXPLORATORY SEARCH; INFORMATION NEED; INFORMATION SEARCH; KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURES; SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; TAGGING SYSTEMS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 77951993012     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02812-0_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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