Benjamin Markines
Completion Date: May 9, 2009
Keywords: Information Retrieval, Web Mining, Social Tagging, Collaborative Filtering
Personal Web Page: http://sites.google.com/site/markines/Home
Research Profile
The links and relationships between online resources were once controlled by editors and authors alone. Today there are online tools, such as Delicious and Wikipedia, that enable users to markup any online resource or to contribute content to any topic. Collaborative tagging systems provide users with a mechanism to freely annotate pages, media files, or other objects. These annotations can be mined to discover relationships between or among users, resources, and tags. My research focuses on assembling semantic similarity networks from user annotations. These similarity networks can in turn lead to improved Web search, recommendation, and navigation. I am also involved in the development of these types of applications leveraging socially induced semantic networks. Our group developed a playground to prototype these applications at , of which I was the lead developer. Filippo Menczer and I wrote the NSF grant that funds this research.
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Categories Posted To:
AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision, Databases / Information Retrieval / Data Mining, Information Systems / Information Science, Social Computing / Social Informatics
