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

  • Authors:
  • Roman Y. Shtykh;Qun Jin

  • Affiliations:
  • Networked Information Systems Laboratory, Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan.;Networked Information Systems Laboratory, Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Web and Grid Services
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In the situation of information overload we are experiencing today, conventional web search systems taking a one-size-fits-all approach are often not capable of effectively satisfy individual information needs. To improve the quality of web information retrieval, we propose a collaborative personalised search approach that makes an attempt to 'understand' and better satisfy the information needs for each and every searching user. We present a web information retrieval framework called Better Search and Sharing (BESS) that captures user-system interactions, profiles them and induces personal interests that changes over time with an interest-change-driven profiling mechanism that is also extensively used for the co-evaluation of documents found valuable inside a specific search context by users with similar interests.