Toward personalized query expansion
Marin Bertier, Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Leroy, Anne-Marie Kermarrec · 2009
Social networking and tagging have taken off at an unexpected scale and speed, opening huge opportunities to enhance the user search experience. We present Gossple, a new, user-centric, approach to improve the exploration of the Internet. Underlying Gossple lies the intuition that while social networks provides news from your old buddies, you can learn a lot more from people you don't know, but with whom you share many (tagging) interests. More specifically, considering a collaborative tagging system with active taggers annotating content, Gossple expands the search query, of any user u, with tags that are considered "close" enough with respect to users that are "close" to u.