Social information retrieval systems emerging technologies and applications for searching the Web effectively /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Foo, Schubert., Goh, Dion.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: Internet searching.; Web search engines.; World Wide Web > Subject access.; Information storage and retrieval systems.; Information retrieval.; Adaptive peer to peer social network; A hybrid clustering approach; Collaborative classification and organization; Collaborative querying; Cues and specialty search; Distributed content based web search; Ethics of social information retrieval; Group-oriented organization; Hybrid recommendation systems; Metadata for social recommendations; Multi-agent tourism system (MATS); Networked environments; Personalized information retrieval; Publication and citation analysis; Reference based search engine rankings; Relevant intra-actions; Semantic-based learning environment; Social context of knowledge; Social information seeking in digital libraries; Social information seeking models; Social issues; Social network models; Social networks and information retrieval; Tools for information retrieval; Use centered descriptions
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (xviii, 375 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-364) and index.
• ISBN: 1599045451 (ebook); 9781599045450 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

The wealth of information accessible on the Internet has grown exponentially since its advent. This mass of content must be systemically sifted to glean pertinent data, and the utilization of the collective intelligence of other users, or social information retrieval, is an innovative, emerging technique. This book provides relevant content in the areas of information retrieval systems, services, and research; covering topics such as social tagging, collaborative querying, social network analysis, subjective relevance judgments, and collaborative filtering.