Ebook: Social Information Access Systems and Technologies

Social information access is defined as a stream of research that explores methods for organizing the past interactions of users in a community in order to provide future users with better access to information. Social information access covers a wide range of different technologies and strategies that operate on a different scale, which can range from a small closed corpus site to the whole Web. The 16 chapters included in this book provide a broad overview of modern research on social information access. In order to provide a balanced coverage, these chapters are organized by the main types of information access (i.e., social search, social navigation, and recommendation) and main sources of social information. .;Social Information Access: Definition and Classification -- Privacy in Social Information Access -- Social Q&A -- Collaborative Information Search -- Social Navigation -- Tag-Based Navigation and Visualization -- Social Search -- Network-Based Social Search -- Accessing Information with Tags: Search and Ranking -- Rating-Based Collaborative Filtering: Algorithms and Evaluation -- Recommendations Based on Social Links -- Tag-Based Recommendation -- From Opinions to Recommendations -- Recommending Based on Implicit Feedback -- People Recommendation on Social Media -- Location Recommendation with Social Media Data. .