Title :
Tagging relations to achieve complex search goals
Author :
Schifanella, Rossano ; Aiello, Luca Maria ; Ruffo, Giancarlo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Turin, Turin, Italy
Abstract :
Social search is having a flourishing success for its effectiveness in retrieving high quality information useful to achieve complex search goals. Surprisingly, the potential of the social paradigm at the basis of collaborative tagging in satisfying complex search intents has been unexplored so far. We propose an extended model of folksonomies that allows to compose and tag complex user-defined relations among items, users, and tags. We show that this model offers several means to fulfill complex search tasks that are hard to be achieved by other existing services. Furthermore, we support the validity of our approach through a data-driven analysis on Flickr photosets and we present an online portal that provides this new user experience.
Keywords :
data analysis; portals; search engines; social networking (online); user interfaces; Flickr photoset; collaborative tagging; complex search goal; complex search intent; complex user-defined relation; data-driven analysis; folksonomies model; online portal; social search; tagging relation; user experience; Collaboration; Media; Navigation; Portals; Semantics; Tagging; Web services; Relational folksonomies; collaborative tagging; social search;
Conference_Titel :
Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP), 2011 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Salamanca
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1125-1
DOI :
10.1109/NWeSP.2011.6088196