Semantic imitation in social tagging

WT Fu, T Kannampallil, R Kang, J He - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
We present a semantic imitation model of social tagging and exploratory search based on
theories of cognitive science. The model assumes that social tags evoke a spontaneous tag …

The collective knowledge of social tags: Direct and indirect influences on navigation, learning, and information processing

U Cress, C Held, J Kimmerle - Computers & Education, 2013 - Elsevier
Tag clouds generated in social tagging systems can capture the collective knowledge of
communities. Using as a basis spreading activation theories, information foraging theory …

Adaptive similarity search for the retrieval of rare events from large time series databases

T Schlegl, S Schlegl, D Tomaselli, N West… - Advanced Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Improving the recall of information retrieval systems for similarity search in time series
databases is of great practical importance. In the manufacturing domain, these systems are …

Graph learning for exploratory query suggestions in an instant search system

E Palumbo, A Damianou, A Wang, A Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Search systems in online content platforms are typically biased toward a minority of highly
consumed items, reflecting the most common user behavior of navigating toward content …

Learning by foraging: The impact of individual knowledge and social tags on web navigation processes

C Held, J Kimmerle, U Cress - Computers in Human Behavior, 2012 - Elsevier
The World Wide Web provides a tremendously large quantity of information. When users
search for information or products on the Web, they will presumably be inclined to choose …

Narrow or broad? Estimating subjective specificity in exploratory search

K Athukorala, A Oulasvirta, D Głowacka… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Supporting exploratory search is a very challenging problem, not least because of the
dynamic nature of the exercise: both the knowledge and interests of the user are subject to …

Shaping feedback data in recommender systems with interventions based on information foraging theory

T Schnabel, PN Bennett, T Joachims - … on Web Search and Data Mining, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems rely heavily on the predictive accuracy of the learning algorithm.
Most work on improving accuracy has focused on the learning algorithm itself. We argue that …

Improving recommender systems beyond the algorithm

T Schnabel, PN Bennett, T Joachims - arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.07578, 2018 - arxiv.org
Recommender systems rely heavily on the predictive accuracy of the learning algorithm.
Most work on improving accuracy has focused on the learning algorithm itself. We argue that …

Exploratory information search by domain experts and novices

R Kang, WT Fu - Proceedings of the 15th international conference on …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
The arising popularity of social tagging system has the potential to transform traditional web
search into a new era of social search. Based on the finding that domain expertise could …

Browse-to-search: Interactive exploratory search with visual entities

S Lu, T Mei, J Wang, J Zhang, Z Wang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
With the development of image search technology, users are no longer satisfied with
searching for images using just metadata and textual descriptions. Instead, more search …