Finding Unknown Interests Utilizing the Wisdom of Crowds in a Social Bookmark Service

  • Authors:
  • Kei Shiratsuchi;Shinichiro Yoshii;Masashi Furukawa

  • Affiliations:
  • Hokkaido University, Japan;Hokkaido University, Japan;Hokkaido University, Japan

  • Venue:
  • WI-IATW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we develop an information recommendation system based on information edited by various users. This system targets a social bookmark service. Our method for finding appropriate information is to gather each user's bookmark data on the Web and develop a system that analyzes the user's association. Assuming that users that have similar interests also have information associated to those interests, we describe user co-citation relationships as a network. We extract the sub-graph as the community in which each user centers from this network. And we develop a web service designed to automatically recommend new information regarding these interests. That service has a list of users who share similar preferences with the specified user and a system to present recommended information to the user.