@inproceedings{brunkhorst2006beagle,
  abstract = {The rapidly increasing quantity and diversity of data stored on our PCs made locating information in this environment very difficult. Consequently, recent research has focussed on building semantically enhanced systems for either organizing or searching data on the desktop. Building on previous work, in this paper we present the Beagle++ toolbox, a set of extendable building blocks for implementing such a system. The corresponding modular desktop search architecture integrates our previously developed metadata generators and ranking components, uses an RDF database to share data between components, and can easily integrate other external components to improve desktop search quality. Additionally, we provide implementation details about all our current components, how they interact with each other, and how to install the complete system on top of a Linux distribution.},
  author = {Brunkhorst, Ingo and Chirita, Paul Alexandru and Costache, Stefania and Gaugaz, Julien and Ioannou, Ekaterini and Iofciu, Tereza and Minack, Enrico and Nejdl, Wolfgang and Paiu, Raluca},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Semantic Desktop and Social Semantic Collaboration Workshop (SemDesk 2006) at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2006},
  editor = {Decker, Stefan and Park, Jack and Sauermann, Leo and Auer, Sören and Handschuh, Siegfried},
  interhash = {0e643a96576d17cbdb49c2c8210c40dd},
  intrahash = {22e23038e827d350db073cebc7ba9133},
  issn = {1613-0073},
  month = nov,
  series = {CEUR-WS.org},
  title = {The Beagle++ Toolbox: Towards an Extendable Desktop Search Architecture},
  url = {http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-202/SEMDESK2006_0028.pdf},
  volume = 202,
  year = 2006
}

@inproceedings{firan2007benefit,
  abstract = {Collaborative tagging, i.e. the process of assigning metadata in the form of keywords to shared content by many users, has emerged as an important way to provide information about resources on the Web and elsewhere. Such keywords (tags) are used to enable the organization of information within personal information spaces, such as photo collections, but can also be shared, allowing browsing and searching with the help of tags attached by other users to information resources from the Web. Recent research has shown that such tag distributions stabilize over time and can be used to improve search on the Web. In this paper we are interested in another aspect, namely how they characterize the user and enable personalized recommendations. Using data from a frequently used music search portal, Last.fm, we analyze tag usage and statistics and investigate the use of tag-based user profiles in contrast to conventional user profiles based on song and track usage. We specify recommendation algorithms based on tag user profiles, and explore how collaborative filtering recommendations based on these tag profiles are different from recommendations based on song/track profiles. Finally, we describe a new search-based method, which uses tags to recommend songs interesting to a user, yielding substantially improved results. The paper finishes with a discussion of some future work to further improve tag-based search and recommendation in community web sites.},
  address = {Washington, DC, USA},
  author = {Firan, Claudiu S. and Nejdl, Wolfgang and Paiu, Raluca},
  booktitle = {LA-WEB '07: Proceedings of the 2007 Latin American Web Conference},
  doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LA-WEB.2007.24},
  interhash = {3261a775322d01ef56865452946a33f6},
  intrahash = {23a6d3aac77330ca699f6d7464b5abb4},
  isbn = {0-7695-3008-7},
  pages = {32--41},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  title = {The Benefit of Using Tag-Based Profiles},
  url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1317537.1318430&jmp=abstract&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=66852723&CFTOKEN=79035243#abstract},
  year = 2007
}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/esws/ChiritaCNP06,
  author = {Chirita, Paul-Alexandru and Costache, Stefania and Nejdl, Wolfgang and Paiu, Raluca},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de},
  booktitle = {ESWC},
  crossref = {DBLP:conf/esws/2006},
  ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11762256_27},
  interhash = {6e4a61612c26e6b01bcb3855431a6892},
  intrahash = {133b2f8c293a226ce9928631abaf5114},
  pages = {348-362},
  title = {Beagle$^{\mbox{++}}$: Semantically Enhanced Searching and Ranking on the Desktop.},
  year = 2006
}

@inproceedings{cgnp05semantically,
  address = {Galway, Ireland},
  author = {Chirita, Paul-Alexandru and Ghita, Stefania and Nejdl, Wolfgang and Paiu, Raluca},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on The Semantic Desktop at the ISWC 2005 Conference},
  day = {6.},
  editor = {Decker, Stefan and Park, Jack and Quan, Dennis and Sauermann, Leo},
  interhash = {397602bc2da1ef6d7fa9005c45670eaa},
  intrahash = {77c7ed5117982df060cec23b87a5342b},
  month = {November},
  pages = {92 - 106},
  title = {Semantically Enhanced Searching and Ranking on the Desktop},
  year = 2005
}