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Social Information
Retrieval Systems:
Emerging Technologies and
Applications for Searching the
Web Effectively
Dion Goh
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Schubert Foo
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Social information retrieval systems : emerging technologies and applications for searching the Web effectively / Dion Goh & Schubert Foo,
editors.
p. cm.
Summary: "This book provides relevant content in the areas of information retrieval systems, services, and research; covering topics such
as social tagging, collaborative querying, work analysis, subjective relevance judgments, and collaborative the
increasing demand for authoritative resources o