TY  - CONF
AU  - Almeida, Rodrigo B.
AU  - Almeida, Virgilio A. F.
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T1  - A community-aware search engine
T2  - Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
PB  - ACM Press
CY  - New York, NY, USA
PY  - 2004/
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VL  - 
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SP  - 413
EP  - 421
UR  - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/988672.988728
M3  - 
KW  - detection
KW  - engine
KW  - community
KW  - network
KW  - search
KW  - hits
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SN  - 1-58113-844-X
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<p>Current search technologies work in a "one size fits all" fashion. Therefore, the answer to a query is independent of specific user information need. In this paper we describe a novel ranking technique for personalized search servicesthat combines content-based and community-based evidences. The community-based information is used in order to provide context for queries andis influenced by the current interaction of the user with the service. Ouralgorithm is evaluated using data derived from an actual service available on the Web an online bookstore. We show that the quality of content-based ranking strategies can be improved by the use of communityinformation as another evidential source of relevance. In our experiments the improvements reach up to 48% in terms of average precision.
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