Pushing Task Relevant Web Links down to the Desktop
ACM Workshop on Web Information and Knowledge Management held at the 15th Intl. CIKM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 06-11.11.06, (2006)Abstract
"Searching the web has become a task in many people’s work, without
which subsequent tasks would be hard to carry out or even impossible.
But as people tend to have less time for querying the web
or even for searching their personal computer for information they
need, it becomes common to skip information gathering activities
like trying to find useful resources on the web because of the “effort”
it takes to query a web search engine. In this paper we propose
to use software agents that collect useful web specific related information
which would otherwise not be viewed at all. More specifically,
we present two new algorithms to automatically search the
web and recommend URLs relevant to user’s current work, defined
through his or her active personal desktop documents. Our experiments
show our proposed algorithms, Sentence Selection and Lexical
Compounds, to yield significant improvement over simple Term
Frequency based web query generation, which we used as a baseline."
