Understanding the potential of social questions in the web search

Jin Woo Jeong, Jee Uk Heu, Dong Ho Lee

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Abstract

In this paper, we analyzed the potential of the query-associated social questions for the Web search. The query-associated social question is the question related with a query term asked by users in the social network. We show how people respond to the query-associated social questions and how they can be utilized during the Web search. To this end, we built a toy-browser which displays both search results and "related social questions" at the same time and conducted a user study. Our findings show that people wish to know the answer of the social questions and want to exploit interesting topics conveyed by social questions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCSCW 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
Pages157-160
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 2nd ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion, CSCW 2013 - San Antonio, TX, United States
Duration: 23 Feb 201327 Feb 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Conference

Conference2013 2nd ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion, CSCW 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Antonio, TX
Period23/02/1327/02/13

Keywords

  • Information seeking
  • Search query
  • Social questions
  • Web search

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