a collaborative search system
Andrei Mustata
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Motivation
-
People collaborate
(Organising a trip) -
People search
(Travel agencies; hotels)
Problems
- Can't do both
- Location
- Synchronous / asynchronous
- Redundancy
Solution
A system that supports the user's needs
- reduce redundancy
- bypass geographical constraints
previous/relevant work
- CoFox
- SearchTogether
- Coagmento
CoFox
- Awareness through video feedback
- Realtime communication
- Link and snippet sharing
CoFox
CoFox
Others
Tools to support division of labour
SearchTogether
- Query histories
- Document rate and comment
- Split search
Coagmento
- Both sync and async
- Snippet share and rate
- Real-time communication
CoFind
- Algorithmic mediator
- Leaverage search history
- Rerank documents
- Rerank query suggestions
Architecture
MMR
Maximal Marginal Relevance
Reranking approach
Evaluation
- 12 pairs
- Latin square design
- Ground truth from shared documents
Results
- Technical difficulties
- Expected results
a collaborative search system
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