Towards Effective Search in a Microblogging Environment

PhD Qualifying Examination


Title: "Towards Effective Search in a Microblogging Environment"

by

Mr. Vosecky JAN


Abstract:

This survey reviews current research issues in the area of information 
retrieval in online microblogs, which have become a popular platform for 
social communication in recent years. Due to the high volume, short 
length, lack of a formal structure and a real-time nature of microblog 
posts, researchers have paid an increasing attention to the task of 
finding relevant content in microblog streams. Specifically, we focus on 
issues related to searching, filtering, ranking and recommending content 
in the microblogging environment. We also review current approaches for 
user profiling, which needs to deal with many new sources of information 
compared with traditional user profiles in Web search. Finally, we compare 
the search behaviour in microblogs with Web search and review approaches 
to enhance traditional Web search with the dynamic and social information 
available in microblogs.


Date:                   Thursday, 17 May 2012

Time:                   10:30am - 12:30pm

Venue:                  Room 1504
                         lifts 25/26

Committee Members:	Dr. Wilfred Ng (Supervisor)
                         Prof. Qiang Yang (Chairperson)
 			Prof. Dik-Lun Lee
 			Dr. Raymond Wong


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