Novel applications of information retrieval techniques to peer-to-peer file-sharing systems

  • Authors:
  • Wai Gen Yee;Linh Thai Nguyen

  • Affiliations:
  • Ophir Frieder, Information Retrieval Laboratory, Chicago, IL;Ophir Frieder, Information Retrieval Laboratory, Chicago, IL

  • Venue:
  • P2PIR '06 Proceedings of the international workshop on Information retrieval in peer-to-peer networks
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A leading application of peer-to-peer technology is file sharing. Because of its scale -- in the millions of users daily -- it is important that file-sharing systems have good search capabilities. A salient characteristic of these systems is that shared files are binary and described solely by small descriptors, in contrast to the self-describing nature of text document sharing systems. Experimental evidence indicates that it is possible to adopt and modify information retrieval techniques to these systems to improve their search accuracy.