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Query Logs as Folksonomies

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Query logs provide a valuable resource for preference information in search. A user clicking on a specific resource after submitting a query indicates that the resource has some relevance with respect to the query. To leverage the information of query logs, one can relate submitted queries from specific users to their clicked resources and build a tripartite graph of users, resources and queries. This graph resembles the folksonomy structure of social bookmarking systems, where users add tags to resources. In this article, we summarize our work on building folksonomies from query log files. The focus is on three comparative studies of the system’s content, structure and semantics. Our results show that query logs incorporate typical folksonomy properties and that approaches to leverage the inherent semantics of folksonomies can be applied to query logs as well.

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  1. http://www.delicious.com/.

  2. http://www.bibsonomy.org/.

  3. http://www.flickr.com/.

  4. http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/RFPs/Search_2006_RFP.aspx.

  5. Please note that we do not use the term ‘synonym’ in a linguistically precise way; we regard two words as being synonyms when they basically refer to the same concept. This also includes e.g., singular/plural forms of a noun.

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Acknowledgements

This research was funded by the European Commission in the project “Tagora—Emergent Semiotics in Social Online Communities”, by the Microsoft Grant “Social Search” and by DFG in the project “Info 2.0—Informationelle Selbstbestimmung im Web 2.0”.

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  1. Hertie-Stiftungslehrstuhl Wissensverarbeitung, Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany

    Dominik Benz, Robert Jäschke, Beate Krause & Gerd Stumme

  2. Data-Mining- und Information-Retrieval-Gruppe, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Andreas Hotho

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Benz, D., Hotho, A., Jäschke, R. et al. Query Logs as Folksonomies. Datenbank Spektrum 10, 15–24 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13222-010-0004-8

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