Glossary
- Social Media:
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Online systems with high public participation and interaction rate
- User Metadata:
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Data created as the result of user interactions in an information space
- Socially Enhanced Search:
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Quality-improved search resulting from employing user metadata
- Personalization:
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Adjustment of a system or process to fit user preferences
- Blogosphere:
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Collection of interconnected Web logs
- Facebook Graph Search:
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Information lookup in the Facebook graph-structured data
- Collaborative Filtering:
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Discovery of new knowledge and patterns through filtering data produced by collaboration between different individuals
Definition
Social search is an online search process that employs user-generated data and user-user relationships produced by social systems including bookmarking sites, Web forums, social networks, and blogs to discover the best matching content to user queries in an information space. This is...
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Shoaran, M., Thomo, A., Weber, J. (2017). Social Web Search. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_261-1
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