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Social Web Search

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Synonyms

Recommender systems; Social analysis; Social content search; Social navigation

Glossary

Social Media:

Online systems with high public participation and interaction rate

User Metadata:

Data created as the result of user interactions in an information space

Socially Enhanced Search:

Quality-improved search resulting from employing user metadata

Personalization:

Adjustment of a system or process to fit user preferences

Blogosphere:

Collection of interconnected Web logs

Facebook Graph Search:

Information lookup in the Facebook graph-structured data

Collaborative Filtering:

Discovery of new knowledge and patterns through filtering data produced by collaboration between different individuals

Definition

Social search is an online search process that employs user-generated data and user-user relationships produced by social systems including bookmarking sites, Web forums, social networks, and blogs to discover the best matching content to user queries in an information space. This is...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Mechatronics, School of Engineering-Emerging Technologies, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

    Maryam Shoaran

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Alex Thomo & Jens Weber

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Management, Institute of Informatics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Przemysław Kazienko

  2. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

    Jaroslaw Jankowski

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Shoaran, M., Thomo, A., Weber, J. (2018). Social Web Search. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_261

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