Personalized and Collaborative Clustering of Search Results

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dc.contributor.advisorGao, Byron J.
dc.contributor.authorAnastasiu, Dragos
dc.contributor.committeeMemberNgu, Anne H. H.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLu, Yijuan
dc.contributor.committeeMemberButler, David
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-25T13:31:31Z
dc.date.available2019-11-25T13:31:31Z
dc.date.issued2011-08
dc.description.abstractOrganizing and presenting search results plays a critical role in the utility of search engines. Due to the unprecedented scale of the Web and diversity of search results, the common strategy of ranked lists has become increasingly inadequate, and clustering has been considered as a promising alternative. Clustering divides a long list of disparate search results into a few topic-coherent clusters, allowing the user to quickly locate relevant results by topic navigation. While many clustering algorithms have been proposed that innovate on the automatic clustering procedure, I introduce Clustering Wiki, the first prototype and framework for personalized clustering that allows direct user editing of the clustering results. Through a Wiki interface, the user can edit and annotate the membership, structure and labels of clusters for a personalized presentation. In addition, the edits and annotations can be shared among users as a mass-collaborative way of improving search result organization and search engine utility.
dc.description.departmentComputer Science
dc.formatText
dc.format.extent128 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationAnastasiu, D. (2011). Personalized and collaborative clustering of search results (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/8892
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectdocument clustering
dc.subjectdatabase searching
dc.subjectwikis
dc.subjectcomputer interfaces
dc.titlePersonalized and Collaborative Clustering of Search Results
dc.typeThesis
thesis.degree.departmentComputer Science
thesis.degree.grantorTexas State University-San Marcos
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Science

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