Improving the Search Experience in a Social Network with Cross Media Contents
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The document discusses an indexing and searching solution for the Eclap social network focused on the performing arts, leveraging multilingual and crossmedia content. It outlines the goals, technical requirements, and methodologies for improving search capabilities, including fuzzy search and faceted search, while assessing user engagement and satisfaction. Ultimately, it highlights improvements in search quality and user experience through advanced search techniques and algorithms.
Improving the Search Experience in a Social Network with Cross Media Contents
- 1. Improving the Search Experience in a Social Network with Cross Media Contents Daniele Cenni, Paolo Nesi University of Florence Department of Systems and Informatics Distributed Systems and Internet Technology Laboratory Paolo.nesi@unifi.it cenni@dsi.unifi.it , http://www.disit.dinfo.unifi.it DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 1
- 2. ECLAP Social Network ECLAP is a Digital Library on Performing Arts connected with Europeana ECLAP is a Best Practice and Social Network (blogs, forums, comments, tagging, voting, …) DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 2
- 3. Goals/Requirements Develop an Indexing/Searching solution for ECLAP Social Network allowing: Indexing multilingual crossmedia content metadata and data (e.g. documents) Indexing portal blogs, forums, events, group pages, comments, etc. Efficient multilingual search (keyword search and advanced search) supporting: misspelled words (e.g. shespeare) partial word search Sorting and filtering search results re-index the whole data without blocking the system Log and monitor users activity … Evaluate the Indexing/Searchig service DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 3
- 4. ECLAP ANY content kind Informative Content Video, audio, images, documents 3D, animations, Braille Slide, Video-Slide, courses eBook, ePub, Mpeg21, intelligent Aggregated Content: Playlist, Collections Annotations, Synchronization Support and networking content: Blog, WebPage, Events, comments, forum, votes, messages, … 4 comments rating relationships technical Dynamic recommend …………… • Performance • Master classes • Scene Sketches • Scenography • Scenes • Private lives of artists • Scores • Braille • BackStage Stills • Choreography • Morals • Poster • Booklets • Magazines Music • Audio ballets
- 5. ECLAP Semantic Model 1 DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi Media Object Video Audio Document Group/Channel CollectionPlaylist 0..n 0..n 1..n 0..n Image AVObjectAnnotation 0..n 1..2 1..n 0..n ForumWebPage CommentContentTaxonomyTerm 0..n 0..n 0..n1 0..n 0..n Blog Metadata Performing Arts Dublin Core Technical Main Annotation Side Annotation 1..n 1 GeoName Crossmedia Archive Event epub 3D IPR Braille Music Score 5
- 6. ECLAP Semantic Model 2 DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi User Group/Channel Content Media Object Comment Annotation TaxonomyTerm foaf:member admin isProvidedBy isFavouriteOf dc:creator dc:creator foaf:topic_interest isFeaturedBy foaf:knows 6
- 7. Indexing Indexing & Search system Based on Apache Solr Multilingual aspects Translate the metadata or translate the query?.. both metadata translation Query translation Indexing schema Dublin Core + DCTerms (multi language) Performing Arts Technical (provider, content type, GPS, IPR, duration, quality, …) Groups associations (multi language) Taxonomy associations (multi language) Comments & multi language tags FullText of the textual digital resources DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 7
- 8. Indexing DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 8
- 9. Metadata Schema Indexing DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 9
- 10. Search Facilities Full text search Uses the catch all fields to search for keywords in most important fields in all languages (title, description, text, body, subject,…) Fuzzy search Allows matching mistyped words Deep search Allows searching for partial words Faceted Search Maximasing Precision and Recall: Relevance & boosting terms DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 10
- 11. Search Facilities vs Information DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 11
- 12. Searching Faceted search DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 12
- 13. Weighted Query Model Where for the “q” query Weights are boosting fields Title is DC.Title, description DC.Description…., Body is textual body, subject…, taxonomy the full description of the taxonomy branch DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 13
- 14. Model Optimization Optimization of the Precision&Recall to improve search quality 50 reference queries Optimization Methods Simulated Annealing Genetic Algorithms 7 parameters DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 14
- 15. Monte Carlo Analysis MAP: Mean Average PrecisionDMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 15
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- 17. Some weights’ Trends DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 17
- 18. Comparative Results MAP: Mean Average PrecisionDMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 18
- 19. Usage Results Over than 500.000 visits 7.29 minutes of permanence on the portal DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 19
- 20. Assessment of Search Facility Distribution of performed clicks First page DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 20
- 21. Conclusions indexing solution for cross media for multilingual metadata and texts Improved Searching & filtering results and thus user experience quality Providing: (full text, operators), advanced, faceted, etc. Precision and Recall analysis allowed to tune the search services Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms produced similar results User behavior assessment has shown that search facility appreciation has been improved wrt to early previous settings, grounded on common sense and classical metadata relevance DMS2013, August 2013, UK, Paolo Nesi 21