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Category Archives: Collaborative Information Seeking
Workshop on Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR 2011)
Workshop on Collaborative Information Retrieval (CIR 2011) CIKM’2011, Glasgow, UK, October 28th. http://cir2011.fxpal.com/ Organizers ———- – Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc, USA. – Jeremy Pickens, Catalyst Repository Systems, USA. – Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft Research, USA. – Juan … Continue reading
Embark Together
I would like to quickly follow up on my previous post on explicitly collaborative information seeking. My claim in that post was that, despite the shared terminology, a service like Aardvark (or Twitter) is not truly collaborative. Let me be … Continue reading
Don’t Forget Explicitly Collaborative Information Seeking
A panel on Social Search is happening at SXSW right now. Reading Danny Sullivan’s liveblogging, I came across the panel’s definition of the three distinct types of social searching. And I think they left one out: Collective (gathering advice from … Continue reading
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Search versus Recommendation: Not The Only Tension
Greg Linden has an interesting post on Search on a domain like YouTube. I reproduce it here because I would like to elaborate on it: The article focuses on YouTube’s “plans to rely more heavily on personalization and ties between … Continue reading
Exploration, Collaboration, and Open Government
What sort of information retrieval system would you build if you knew that all the users of your system would be expert or highly-motivated amateur searchers? What sort of system would you build when you have a very large collection … Continue reading
There is No Crowd
Via Xavier Amatriain: The Dirty Little Secret About the “Wisdom of the Crowds” – There is No Crowd: This is hardly the first time that the so-called “wisdom of the crowds” has been called into question. The term, which implies … Continue reading
A Bird in the Hand…
As a researcher, I have more questions than answers. And one of the questions that I have is in regards to the widely-accepted maxim that users are too lazy to give explicit relevance feedback to the search engine. See Danny … Continue reading
Dagstuhl Seminar on Content-Based Retrieval
As a researcher, it is occasionally quite interesting to reread thoughts and positions that I’ve taken in years and works past. Sometimes I can observe a marked shift from my previous thinking; avenues or approaches that I once considered fruitful … Continue reading
Collaborative Information Seeking (Ongoing Recap)
Now seems as good a time as any to post a quick recap of the series of collaborative information seeking posts that Gene and I have been writing over on Palblog. We’re about halfway through the series. Communicating about Collaboration … Continue reading
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Social ?= Collaborative
There is an an interesting comment thread happening over on the FXPAL blog, about the differences between social search and collaborative search: http://palblog.fxpal.com/?p=350#comments