Exploiting Social Tagging Profiles to Personalize Web Search

  • Authors:
  • David Vallet;Iván Cantador;Joemon M. Jose

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK;University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK;University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

  • Venue:
  • FQAS '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

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.