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SERPWatcher: A SERP Mining Tool as a Novel Social Survey Method in Sociology

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Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2010)

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Web search engines accept keywords and return a search engine results page (SERP). Since the SERP itself and the ranking order change with time reflecting the changes in society, it might be possible to accurately follow the movement of society by mining SERPs. This demonstration shows a SERP mining tool named SERPWatcher, which could be a novel social survey method in the field of sociology in that it totally differs from the traditional methods such as questionnaires and interviews.

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  1. Aoyama Gakuin University, Fuchinobe 5-10-1, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 229-8558, Japan

    Yoshifumi Masunaga, Kazunari Ito & Yoichi Miyama

  2. Ochanomizu University, Otsuka 2-1-1, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 112-8650, Japan

    Naoko Oyama, Chiemi Watanabe & Kaoru Tachi

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  1. Yoshifumi Masunaga
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  1. Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, 305–8573, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Hiroyuki Kitagawa

  2. Information Technology Center, Nagoya University, 464-8601, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

    Yoshiharu Ishikawa

  3. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Qing Li

  4. Department of Information Science, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1, Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, 112-8610, Tokyo, Japan

    Chiemi Watanabe

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Masunaga, Y., Oyama, N., Watanabe, C., Ito, K., Tachi, K., Miyama, Y. (2010). SERPWatcher: A SERP Mining Tool as a Novel Social Survey Method in Sociology. In: Kitagawa, H., Ishikawa, Y., Li, Q., Watanabe, C. (eds) Database Systems for Advanced Applications. DASFAA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5982. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12098-5_38

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