Recommending case bases: applications in social web search

  • Authors:
  • Zurina Saaya;Barry Smyth;Maurice Coyle;Peter Briggs

  • Affiliations:
  • CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland;CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland;CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland;CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • ICCBR'11 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

For the main part, when it comes to questions of retrieval, the focus of CBR research has been on the retrieval of cases from a repository of experience knowledge or case base. In this paper we consider a complementary retrieval issue, namely the retrieval of case bases themselves in scenarios where experience may be distributed across multiple case repositories. We motivate this problem with reference to a deployed social web search service called HeyStaks, which is based on the availability of multiple repositories of shared search knowledge, known as staks, and which is fully integrated into mainstream search engines in order to provide a more collaborative search experience. We describe the case base retrieval problem in the context of HeyStaks, propose a number of case base retrieval strategies, and evaluate them using real-user data from recent deployments.