We present an approach to the discovery of semantically similar terms that utilizes a web search engine as both a source for generating related terms and a tool for estimating the...
There is a growth in the popularity of social file sharing systems. This paper describes the design of Cattail, a social file sharing system for the enterprise. Through a ‘Recen...
N. Sadat Shami, Michael J. Muller, David R. Millen
We present a novel problem of searching for `familiar strangers' in a social network. Familiar strangers are individuals who are not directly connected but exhibit some simil...
This paper studies the problem of unified ranked retrieval of heterogeneous XML documents and Web data. We propose an effective search engine called Sailer to adaptively and versa...
This work investigates personalized social search based on the user’s social relations – search results are re-ranked according to their relations with individuals in the user...
David Carmel, Naama Zwerdling, Ido Guy, Shila Ofek...