Using Social Annotations to Smooth the Language Model for IR

@incollection{citeulike:1725981, abstract = {In the paper, we present an exploration of using social annotations provided by the Web 2.0 sites (such as Del.icio.us) in helping web search. More specifically, we consider using the social annotations as an additional resource to strengthen existing smoothing methods for the language model for IR. The social annotations can benefit the smoothing of language model in two aspects: 1) the annotations themselves can serve as the summaries of the web pages given by the users; 2) the annotations can be seen as the links of the web pages sharing the same annotations. We propose three smoothing methods, addressing the two aspects and their combination, respectively. We call the new language model of using the proposed smoothing methods ’Language Annotation Model (LAM). Preliminary experimental results show that LAM significantly outperforms the traditional language models.}, author = {Xu, Shengliang and Bao, Shenghua and Yu, Yong and Cao, Yunbo }, citeulike-article-id = {1725981}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-71701-0\_114}, journal = {Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining}, keywords = {annotation, ir, social}, pages = {1015--1021}, posted-at = {2008-04-03 17:52:05}, priority = {3}, title = {Using Social Annotations to Smooth the Language Model for IR}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71701-0\_114}, year = {2007} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1725981 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1725981 TI - Using Social Annotations to Smooth the Language Model for IR JF - Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining SP - 1015 EP - 1021 N2 - In the paper, we present an exploration of using social annotations provided by the Web 2.0 sites (such as Del.icio.us) in helping web search. More specifically, we consider using the social annotations as an additional resource to strengthen existing smoothing methods for the language model for IR. The social annotations can benefit the smoothing of language model in two aspects: 1) the annotations themselves can serve as the summaries of the web pages given by the users; 2) the annotations can be seen as the links of the web pages sharing the same annotations. We propose three smoothing methods, addressing the two aspects and their combination, respectively. We call the new language model of using the proposed smoothing methods ’Language Annotation Model (LAM). Preliminary experimental results show that LAM significantly outperforms the traditional language models. KW - annotation KW - ir KW - social AU - Xu, Shengliang AU - Bao, Shenghua AU - Yu, Yong AU - Cao, Yunbo PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71701-0_114 ER -